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Other titles in the Synthese Library series:
- Groups of Divisibility
- Logic in Law: Remarks on Logic and Rationality in Normative Reasoning, Especially in Law
- Nonlinear Waves and Solitions
- Systems of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
- International Law & Political Reality: Collected Papers
- Precis of Mathematical Logic
- A Billion Trips a Day: Tradition and Transition in European Travel Patterns
- Microprocessors in Signal Processing, Measurement and Control
- Preventive Detention: A Comparative & International Law Perspective
- Problemes Et Methodes de La Statistique Linguistique
- Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic & Linguistic Semantics
- Formal Methods
- Philosophical Problems of Many-Valued Logic
- The Spectrum of Social Time
- Litigation Strategy at the International Court
- Formal Logic
- Foreign Capital, Savings and Growth: An International Cross-Section Study
- Mathematical Epistemology and Psychology
- Induction Probability & Causation: Selected Papers
- Simultaneous Horizontal & Cyclovertical Strabismus Surgery
- The Judicial Application of Law
- Aristotle's Theory of the Syllogism: A Logico-Philosophical Study of Book 'A' of the Prior Analytics
- Behavior and Its Causes, Philosophical Foundations of Operant Psychology
- Virtue and Medicine
- Topics in Philosophical Logic
- Words and Objections, Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine. Revised Edition
- Studies in the Methodology and Foundations of Science
- Models for Modalities, Selected Essays
- Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel
- Immunology of ENT Disorders
- Problems of the Logic of Scientific Knowledge
- The Semantic Variability of Absolute Constructions
- Induction, Acceptance, & Rational Belief
- Information and Inference
- Induction, Physics and Ethics
- International Monitoring of Plebiscites, Referenda & National Elections: Self-Determination & Transition to Democracy
- Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory
- Quantum Paradoxes & Physical Reality
- The Justification of Scientific Change
- The Justification of Scientific Change
- What I Do Not Believe, & Other Essays
- Semantics of Natural Language, Second Edition
- Pragmatics of Natural Languages
- de Motu and the Analyst
- Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of Leptons and Fields
- Combinators, Lambda-Terms, & Proof Theory
- Philosophy of Physics
- Physicalism in Mathematics
- Thomas Reid and the Way of Ideas'
- Approaches to Natural Language: Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar & Semantics, Stanford, 1970
- Conceptual Change: Proceedings of the University of Western Ontario Conference, London, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1970
- Course in Mathematical Logic Vol. I: Relation & Logical Formula
- Parametrized Relativistic Quantum Theory
- Space, Time and Geometry
- Belowground Responses to Rising Atmospheric Co2: Implications for Plants, Soil Biota, and Ecosystem Processes
- Logical Theory & Semantic Analysis: Essays Dedicated to Stig Kanger on His Fiftieth Birthday
- Logical Foundations of Statistical Inference
- Structuralism: Moscow-prague-paris (74 Edition)
- Philosophy of Language
- Rudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist: Materials & Perspectives
- Logic and Probability in Quantum Mechanics
- Can Theories Be Refuted?
- The Intuitive Sources of Probabilistic Thinking in Children
- The Logic of Conditionals, an Application of Probability to Deductive Logic
- Collected Papers on Epistemology, Philosophy of Science & History of Philosophy, 2
- Collected Papers on Epistemology, Philosopy of Science and History If Pholosophy Vol.1
- Investigations in Modal and Tense Logics with Applications to Problems in Philosophy and Linguistics
- Understanding & Prediction Essays in the Methodology of Social & Behavioral Theories
- Action Theory
- Outline of a Nominalist Theory of Propositions: An Essay in the Theory of Meaning & in the Philosophy of Logic
- Cosmochemistry & the Origin of Life
- Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects
- Formal Methods in the Mothodology of Empirical Sciences
- Belief & Probability
- Galactic and Extragalactic Infrared Spectroscopy
- The Scientific World-Perspective and Other Essays, 1931-1963
- Unity of Science
- Advanced Logic for Applications
- Tense Logic
- Position & Change
- Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction in the Social Sciences
- Dispositions
- Inference, Method and Decision Towards a Bayesian Philosophy of Science
- Action Theory & Social Science
- Quantum Logic
- Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empirist
- Galileo's Logic of Discovery & Proof: The Background, Content, & Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
- Mechanism, Mentalism, and Metamathematics
- Body, Mind and Method
- Chemometrics Mathematics and Statistics in Chemistry
- New Rhetoric and the Humanities
- Universalizability
- History and Philosophy of Science Vol. 1
- Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy; V. 21: History and Philosophy of Science Vol. 2
- Semantical Investigations in Heyting's Intuitionistic Logic
- Theory of Indistinguishables: A Search for Explanatory Principles Below the Level of Physics
- Pictures, Images, and Conceptual Change
- New Studies in Deontic Logic, Norms, Actions, and the Foundations of Ethics
- Scientific Progress: A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories (Fourth Edition)
- Time: A Philosophical Analysis
- Abstract Objects an Introduction to Axiomatic Metaphysics
- Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
- Nonlinear Optical Effects in Organic Polymers
- Communication and Meaning
- Culture and Cultural Entities
- Philosophical Analysis in Latin America
- Epistemic Analysis a Coherence Theory of Knowledge
- Astrophysics and Space Science Library #174: Antiaesthetics
- Reduction in Science: Structure, Examples, Philosophical Problems
- Theory of Legal Science
- Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective
- Sociobiology and Epistemology
- Frege Synthesized
- Hilbert's Program, an Essay on Mathematical Instrumentalism
- Truthlikeness
- An Architectonic for Science
- Roads to Commensurability
- Matters of Intelligence
- Evolutionary Epistemology
- Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons & Astrophysics
- Probability & Causality
- Scrutinizing Science
- Perspectives on Mind
- Self and Others
- Analogical Reasoning
- Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw School
- The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic
- Probability in the Sciences
- From Metaphysics to Rhetoric
- Utrecht Studies in Air and Space Law #226: Models and Methods in the Philosophy of Science
- Philosophical Logic in Poland
- Mathematics and Its Applications #229: Diamonds and Defaults
- Logic of Discovery: A Theory of the Rationality of Scientific Research
- Optimum Inductive Methods: A Study in Inductive Probability, Bayesian Statistics, & Verisimilitude
- Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher Volume One Probability and Probabilistic Causality
- Logic & Philosophy of Science in Uppsala: Papers from the 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology & Philosophy of Science
- Mind, Meaning & Mathematics: Essays on the Philosophical Views of Husserl & Frege
- Real Numbers, Generalizations of the Reals, & Theories of Continua
- Living Doubt: Essays Concerning the Epistemology of Charles Sanders Pierce
- Physically-Based Modelling & Simulation of Climate & Climatic Change, Pt. 1
- Applied Logic: How, What & Why: Logical Approaches to Natural Language
- Quantifiers Vol. 2: Logics, Models & Computation: Contributions
- From Dedekind to Godel
- Feminism, Science & the Philosophy of Science
- Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science
- Coping with Floods
- Philosophical logic and logical philosophy :essays in honour of Vladimir A. Smirnov
- Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology & Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995, Vol. 2
- Denying Existence: The Logic, Epistemology & Pragmatics of Negative Existentials & Fictional Discourse
- Contemporary Action Theory, Vol. 2
- Logic of International Objects: A Meinongian Version of Classical Logic
- New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus, & Its Origins
- The New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins
- On Science, Inference, Information and Decision Making
- In the Shadow of Descartes, Essays in the Philosophy of Mind
- Naming the Rainbow: Colour Language, Colour Science, & Culture
- Shapes of Forms
- Truth, Proof, & Infinity: A Theory of Constructions & Constructive Reasoning
- First-Order Modal Logic
- First-Order Modal Logic
- Logic, Truth and the Modalities
- Mathematical Intuitionism and Intersubjectivity: A Critical Exposition of Arguments for Intuitionism
- Logic and Foundations of Mathematics, Florence, August 1995: International Congress Proceedings
- Language, Quantum, Music
- In Search of a New Humanism: The Philosophy of Georg Henrik Von Wright
- Truth and Its Nature (If Any)
- Interpretations & Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson's Philosophy
- Recursive Functions and Metamathematics: Problems of Completeness and Decidability, Godel's Theorems
- From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism
- Mobile Particulate Systems
- The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge
- History and Philosophy of Constructive Type Theory
- A Boole Anthology: Recent and Classical Studies in the Logic of George Boole
- Proof Theory: History and Philosophical Significance
- Computer Modelling of Fluids Polymers and Solids
- The Tensed Theory of Time: A Critical Examination
- The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination
- The Dawn of Cognitive Science: Early European Contributors
- Holism in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Physics
- Collected Papers of Stig Kanger with Essays on His Life and Work Volume I
- Collected Papers of Stig Kanger with Essays on His Life and Work Volume II
- Logic, Meaning and Computation
- Reuniting the Antipodes: Constructive and Nonstandard Views of the Continuum
- Refined Verisimilitude
- If Tropes
- A Collection of Polish Works on Philosophical Problems of Time and Spacetime
- Internal Logic
- A Model-Theoretic Realist Interpretation of Science
- Explanatory Translation: Beyond the Kuhnian Model of Conceptual Change
- Trading Ontology for Ideology: The Interplay of Logic, Set Theory, and Semantics in Quine's Philosophy
- The Withdrawal of Rights: Rights from a Different Perspective
- Synthese Library #315-: In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science: International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August
- Synthese Library #315-: In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science: Volume Two [Sic] of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosoph
- Synthese Library #315-: In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science: Volume Two [Sic] of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosoph
- The Brain from 25,000 Feet: High Level Explorations of Brain Complexity, Perception, Induction, and Vagueness
- Husserl's Logical Investigations
- (Over) Interpreting Wittgenstein
- Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science
- Realism in Action; Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
- Knowledge Contributors
- Future Trends in Microelectronics Reflections on the Road to Nanotechnology
- Philosophy and Logic in Search of the Polish Tradition: Essays in Honour of Jan Wolenski on Theoccasion of His 60th Birthday
- Optic Flow and Beyond
- I Am You
- Theoretical Knowledge
- Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics
- From the Act of Judging To the Sentence
- Signs of Logic: Peircean Themes on the Philosophy of Language, Games, and Communication
- Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations Into Discovery and Explanation
- Self-Organization and Emergence in Life Science
- Attitudes and Changing Contexts
- Immanent Realism: An Introduction to Brentano
- The Limits of Logical Empiricism: Selected Papers of Arthur Pap
- Brouwer Meets Husserl: On the Phenomenology of Choice Sequences
- Diagrammatology: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology, and Semiotics
- Dynamic Epistemic Logic
- Blameworthy Belief: A Study in Epistemic Deontologism
- Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism
- Philosophical Lectures on Probability
- Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism: What Has Become of Them?
- Degrees of Belief
- Nominalism and Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman
- Substantive Perspectivism: An Essay on Philosophical Concern with Truth
- Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl
- Interactive Wittgenstein: Essays in Memory of Georg Henrik Von Wright
- Transition Metal Carbyne Complexes
- The Theory of Cubature Formulas
- Fixed Point Theory and Best Approximation: The Kkm-Map Principle
Synthese Library #283: Agent Causality
by Fred Vollmer
Synopses & Reviews Who - or what - is an agent? How - in virtue of what - does an agent do things, or refrain from doing them? In this attempt to understand the concept of agent causality, Vollmer proposes that persons are in control of their actions in virtue of reflective consciousness, consisting of a primary, intrinsic, nonobservational awareness of one's own activity, and a capacity to form second-order thoughts about such activity. According to traditional action theory, only behaviour that an agent is aware of performing (under some description) counts as action. In Vollmer's view, however, reflective consciousness plays a more important role than just determining what someone is doing, or under what description the action is intentional. Reflective consciousness is what gives you control and renders you free. Reflective consciousness is what you are. Readership: Professionals and students interested in theoretical psychology and the theory of action.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780792358480
- Author:
- Vollmer, Fred
- Publisher:
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Editor:
- Parker, Lynne E.
- Author:
- Vollmer, F.
- Location:
- Dordrecht
- Subject:
- Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Subject:
- Mind & Body
- Subject:
- Agent (philosophy)
- Subject:
- Causation
- Subject:
- Agent
- Subject:
- Movements - Humanism
- Edition Description:
- Hardcover
- Series:
- Synthese library ;
- Series Volume:
- 102-644v. 283
- Publication Date:
- May 2002
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 180
- Dimensions:
- 9.21x6.14x.44 in. .91 lbs.
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