10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAUSATIONIST»
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1
Enigmas of Agency: Studies in the Philosophy of Human Action
point is that the agent causationist would deny that her leg and body movement
alone is identical with her action; as I have said, he would maintain that she
agent-causes the movement and not the action of which the movement is a part.
2
The Oxford Handbook of Free Will: Second Edition
The conclusion drawn is that neither agent controlled the way their respective
cases unfolded in such a way that it was up to her that she told the truth (lied).10
The agent causationist contends that both these objections fail to take seriously
the ...
3
A Metaphysics for Freedom
These views might therefore be thought not to count as agent causationist,
according to the Clarke definition. The only views that would clearly fit Clarke's
characterization of the agent-causationist line would be those that I have
suggested are ...
4
Natural Agency: An Essay on the Causal Theory of Action
Developing such a CTA analysis requires meeting a range of agent- causationist
intuitions that suggest that an ontology rich enough for the realization of actions
must include a special kind of agent- causation not reducible to event-causation.
John Christopher Bishop,
1989
Causationist is an idea of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He held the solid self-thinker
ties the cause to the effect in multifaceted life-knowledge-his- tory, again as
perceived, so lending a causationist bent to each mind, each age, each teacher,
each ...
WIlliam H. Peterson,
2009
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Moral causation; or, Notes on mr. Mill's notes to the ...
98 The Fatalist and Moral Causationist. Mr. Mill gives a slight sketch of the
extremely intelligible modus, in which his 'moral Causationist, ' desiring to
improve his character, may do it by the ' use of proper means ;' and he contrasts
with him the ...
Patrick Proctor Alexander, John Stuart Mill,
1868
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Causationism: A Theory Regarding the Freedom of Human Action
So the important question for the Causationist is as follows: If rights only attach to
moral agents, what, on a Causationist view, are moral agents? By "moral agents"
the Causationist intends "an individual (of the kind or type or who has the ...
is a Causationist. He holds that not only conduct but character is, in a measure
under control of will ; that, by employment of the suitable means, character may
be improved; that if our character, such as it is, compels us to do wrong, motives ...
Edward Everett Hale,
1865
9
Mental Causation and Ontology
We should be careful to distinguish the agent causationist's position from that of
non-causalists (e.g., Ginet 1990, Goetz 1988, McCann 1998, and Pink 2004).
Both positions agree that autonomous control rests on a primitive capacity to form
...
Sophie C. Gibb, S. C. Gibb, E. J. Lowe,
2013
10
Free Will (Second Edition):
But no agent causationist imagines such a scenario. On the version of the view
advanced here, the agent's capacity to cause actiontriggering events is causally
structured by the agent's internal state, involving the having of reasons and other
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