Persons and Causes
The Metaphysics of Free Will
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
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This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided 'agent' causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.
His [O'Connor] book does succeed in putting the ball firmly in the court of those who think that there is something weird about the very idea of persons being the causes of what persons do * James A. Harris, Times Literary Supplement *
O'Connor will lend much encouragement to anyone uncomfortable with the reductionist tendencies of contemporary philosophy of action * James A. Harris, Times Literary Supplement *
ISBN: 9780195133080
Dimensions: 238mm x 162mm x 16mm
Weight: 422g
160 pages