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How We Act presents a compelling picture of human action as part of the natural causal order of the world. Berent Enç eschews any appeal to special capacities supposedly unique to rational agents, such as agent causation or irreducible acts of volition, and appeals to analogous positions in epistemology and the theory of perception, showing why it is a mistake to subscribe to such capacities.Although aspects of the causal theory of action have been adopted and defended by many empiricist philosophers, none has given as sustained and as thorough a defence as Enç offers in this book. His defence begins with a foundationalist definition of action that rests on a theory of basic acts, conceived here as derived from empirical studies of animal behaviour. Basic acts are complex units that agents acquire as part of their repertoire of things they can readily do - things with whichpractical syllogisms end.Having set out the details of his causal theory, Enç proceeds to propose solutions for two remaining problems. The first is a general and a complete solution to the problem of the so-called deviant causal chains. The second is a solution to the problem of the disappearance of the agent. T

Author

Berent En&ccedil

Publisher

Oxford: Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191602238

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities