1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798611203321

Autore

Greenberg Robert <1934->

Titolo

The bounds of freedom : Kant's causal theory of action / / Robert Greenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-061175-9

3-11-049184-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 pages)

Collana

Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte, , 0340-6059 ; ; Band 191

Disciplina

128/.4092

Soggetti

Act (Philosophy)

Free will and determinism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Causal Theories of Objects and Grice’s Causal Theory of Perception -- 3. Kant’s Theory of Practical Causality -- 4. Conscience: Remembering One’s Forbidden Actions -- 5. The New Problem of the Imputability of Actions -- 6. Maxims and Categorical Imperatives -- 7. Necessity and Practical A Priori Knowledge: Kant and Kripke -- 8. The Bounds of Freedom -- References -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph is a new interpretation of Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of the freedom of the will. The interpretation is based on an analysis of Kant’s primary conception of an action, viz., as a causal consequence of the will. The analysis in turn is based on H. P. Grice’s causal theory of perception and on P. F. Strawson’s modification of the theory. The monograph rejects the customary assumption that Kant’s maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. It assumes instead that the maxim is definitive of the action, and since its main thesis is that an action for Kant is to be primarily understood as an effect of the will, it concludes that the maxim of an action can only be its logical determination. Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of free will is confronted not only by contemporary philosophical conceptions of causality, but by Kant’s own



complementary theory of causality, in the Second Analogy of Experience. According to this latter conception, causality is a natural relation among physical and psychological objects, and is therefore a temporal relation among them. Faced with this conflict, Kant scholars like Allen W. Wood either reject Kant’s àtemporal conception of causality or like Henry E. Allison accept it, but only in an anodyne form. Both camps, however, make the aforementioned assumption that Kant’s maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. The monograph, rejecting the assumption, belongs to neither camp.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967205903321

Autore

Hennig Teresa <1958->

Titolo

Professional Access 2013 programming / / Teresa Hennig ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, Ind., : Wrox, 2013

ISBN

9781118789612

111878961X

9781118530825

1118530829

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (887 p.)

Collana

Wrox programmer to programmer Professional Access 2013 programming

Altri autori (Persone)

HennigTeresa <1958->

Disciplina

005.7565

Soggetti

Database management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Wrox programmer to programmer"--Cover.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Access web application design and development -- pt. II. Client-server design and development.

Sommario/riassunto

Authoritative and comprehensive coverage for building Access 2013 Solutions   Access, the most popular database system in the world, just opened a new frontier in the Cloud. Access 2013 provides significant new features for building robust line-of-business solutions for web, client and integrated environments.  This book was written by a team of Microsoft Access MVPs, with consulting and editing by Access experts,



MVPs and members of the Microsoft Access team. It gives you the information and examples to expand your areas of expertise and immediately start to develop and upgrade