Steward, HC orcid.org/0000-0003-1654-577X (2016) Making the Agent Reappear: How Processes Might Help. In: Altshuler, R and Sigrist, MJ, (eds.) Time and the Philosophy of Action. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy . Routledge , London ISBN 9780415735247
Abstract
This paper argues that the view that actions are processes (rather than events) can help with what is sometimes called the ‘problem of the disappearing agent’. Two versions of this problem are first distinguished – in order to indicate which version of the problem it is which the introduction of processes might be able to allay. The paper then presents the outline of a view of the metaphysics of processes, and suggests some ways in which the idea that actions are processes might help us steer between the Scylla of standard agent causationism and the Charybdis of event-causal conceptions of action.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | process; agency; agent causation; event causation; actions |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2016 09:27 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2016 09:27 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Series Name: | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102036 |