LEADER 03181nam 22006615 450 001 9910595030103321 005 20251009103224.0 010 $a9783031102431 010 $a3031102436 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-10243-1 035 $a(CKB)5850000000078608 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7102083 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7102083 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-10243-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)995850000000078608 100 $a20220921d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOptions and Agency /$fby John T. Maier 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (194 pages) 311 08$a9783031102424 311 08$a3031102428 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Foundations -- 2. The Simplicity of Options -- 3. The Analysis of Ability -- 4. The Active and Passive Powers -- 5. A Picture of Agentive Possibility -- 6. Chapter Six: Against Reconciliation -- 7. Simple Compatibilism. 330 $aThis book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents. The central thesis is that the idea of an option should be taken as primitive, and that other agentive notions ? such as ability, skill, and free will ? should be understood in terms of options. The main contributions of this book are twofold. First, it resolves many of the outstanding questions in the metaphysics and semantics of agentive modality. In doing so, it develops original accounts of topics that have been central to philosophy since Aristotle. It also contributes to a lively contemporary literature on these topics. Second, it articulates an austere and uncompromising form of compatibilism about free will, termed ?simple compatibilism.? Simple compatibilism is so-called because it rejects both the reductive theses endorsed by traditional compatibilists and the sophisticated proposals of many contemporary compatibilists. Instead, it turns precisely on insisting that options are analytically simple. Arguments for incompatibilism are shown to rest on auxiliary principles that should, in light of the book?s general account of options, be rejected. 606 $aAction theory 606 $aMetaphysics 606 $aMetaethics 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aSelf 606 $aAction Theory 606 $aMetaphysics 606 $aMeta-Ethics 606 $aPhilosophy of the Self 615 0$aAction theory. 615 0$aMetaphysics. 615 0$aMetaethics. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aSelf. 615 14$aAction Theory. 615 24$aMetaphysics. 615 24$aMeta-Ethics. 615 24$aPhilosophy of the Self. 676 $a016.016 676 $a128.4 700 $aMaier$b John T.$01258281 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910595030103321 996 $aOptions and Agency$92915947 997 $aUNINA