Meta Ontology

jest opublikowany w roku

• 2009

ma metadane w formacie Bibtex

• @article{Talbott2009-TALGFA,journal = {Faith and Philosophy},abstract = {My purpose in this paper is to set forth a theory of agency that makes no appeal to mysterious notions of agent causation. But lest I be misunderstood at the very outset, I should perhaps clarify the point that my emphasis here is on the term ''mysterious'' and not on the expression ''agent causation.'' I shall begin with what seems to me the best possible example of agent causation: the sense in which a supremely perfect God, if one should exist, would initiate or originate his own actions. I shall not, however, simply adopt without modification the standard understanding of agent causation, assuming there to be such an understanding. I shall not make it true by definition, for example, that an agent-caused event can occur only in a context of alternative possibilities and hence can never be necessitated. Neither shall I make it true by definition that the internal states of an agent can never determine, or even causally determine in the case of human beings, a genuine instance of agent causation.1 Instead, I shall begin with the assumption that God represents the best and the clearest example of.},author = {Thomas Talbott},number = {4},volume = {26},title = {God, Freedom, and Human Agency},year = {2009},pages = {378--397}}@

ma tytuł

• God, Freedom, and Human Agency

ostatnia strona

• 397

pierwsza strona

• 378