03952nam 2200409 450 991059503010332120230225124132.03-031-10243-6(CKB)5850000000078608(MiAaPQ)EBC7102083(Au-PeEL)EBL7102083(EXLCZ)99585000000007860820230225d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOptions and agency /John T. MaierCham, Switzerland :Springer,[2022]©20221 online resource (194 pages)3-031-10242-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: The Philosophy of Agency -- Bibliography -- 1: Foundations -- 1.1 Options Introduced -- 1.2 Options and Possibility -- 1.3 Options and Choice Situations -- 1.4 Knowledge of Options -- 1.5 Why Options Matter -- 1.6 Options and Free Will -- 1.7 Plan of the Book -- Bibliography -- 2: The Simplicity of Options -- 2.1 Having Options -- 2.2 The Conditional Analysis -- 2.3 The Appeal to Volition -- 2.4 The Modal Analysis -- 2.5 The Limits of Control -- 2.6 The Simple View -- 2.7 An Explanatory Challenge -- 2.8 The Performance Principle -- 2.9 The Possibility Principle -- Bibliography -- 3: The Analysis of Ability -- 3.1 Options and Abilities -- 3.2 'Able' and Ability -- 3.3 The Ascription View -- 3.4 The Modal View -- 3.5 An Equivocation on 'Able' -- 3.6 'Able': The Specific Reading -- 3.7 'Able': The General Reading -- 3.8 'Can' -- 3.9 'Ability' -- 3.10 A Theory of Ability -- 3.11 Are There Abilities? -- 3.12 Specific and General Abilities -- 3.13 Abilities Regained? -- Bibliography -- 4: The Active and Passive Powers -- 4.1 Agency and Analysis -- 4.2 The Dispositional Analysis of Ability -- 4.3 First Argument Against Dispositionalism -- 4.4 What Is a Disposition? -- 4.5 A Theory of Dispositions -- 4.6 Finks and Masks -- 4.7 On Dispositional Analyses -- 4.8 The Dispositional Analysis of Mind -- 4.9 Second Argument Against Dispositionalism -- 4.10 The Grounds of Activity -- 4.11 The Problem of Power -- 4.12 On Efficacy -- Bibliography -- 5: A Picture of Agentive Possibility -- 5.1 Review -- 5.2 The Humean Picture -- 5.3 The Aristotelian Picture -- 5.4 Between Humeanism and Aristotelianism -- 5.5 A New Picture -- 5.6 An Old Challenge -- Bibliography -- 6: Against Reconciliation -- 6.1 Methodological Introduction -- 6.2 The Possibility of Determinism.6.3 The Libertarian Response -- 6.4 Against Liberation -- 6.5 What is Compatibilism? -- 6.6 Two Ways of Reconciliation -- 6.7 The Way of Reduction -- 6.8 First Argument Against Reduction -- 6.9 Second Argument Against Reduction -- 6.10 The Way of Sophistication -- 6.11 First Argument Against Sophistication -- 6.12 Second Argument Against Sophistication -- 6.13 After Reconciliation -- Bibliography -- 7: Simple Compatibilism -- 7.1 Compatibilism Without Reconciliation -- 7.2 Two Principles Reconsidered -- 7.3 The Minimal Argument -- 7.4 Against Restriction -- 7.5 A New Argument for Compatibilism -- 7.6 Simple Compatibilism Stated -- 7.7 Varieties of Incompatibilism -- 7.8 The Consequence Argument -- 7.9 The Failure of Inheritance -- 7.10 Lewis on Compatibilism -- 7.11 The Lure of Incompatibilism -- 7.12 Towards a Constructive Compatibilism -- Bibliography -- Afterword: Of Agents and Objects -- Bibliography -- Index.Agent (Philosophy)Agent (Philosophy)016.016Maier John T.1258281MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910595030103321Options and Agency2915947UNINA