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What are you causing in acting?
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Date Issued
2010-08
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2013-11-25T16:19:15Z
Abstract
My target for attack in this paper is the fairly widespread view in the philosophy of action
that what an agent is doing in acting in a certain kind of way is causing an event of some
corresponding type. On this view agency is characterized by the agent’s causing of
events. To pick one of many manifestations of this view here are Maria Alvarez and
John Hyman.We can describe an agent as something or someone that makes things happen.
And we can add that to make something happen is to cause an event of some
kind. (Alvarez & Hyman, 1998, p. 221)
that what an agent is doing in acting in a certain kind of way is causing an event of some
corresponding type. On this view agency is characterized by the agent’s causing of
events. To pick one of many manifestations of this view here are Maria Alvarez and
John Hyman.We can describe an agent as something or someone that makes things happen.
And we can add that to make something happen is to cause an event of some
kind. (Alvarez & Hyman, 1998, p. 221)
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
MIT Press
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Journal
Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff (eds.). Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action
ISBN
9780262014564
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