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100 1 _aWeissman, David
_d1936-
_eauthor.
245 0 0 _aAgency
_h[electronic resource] :
_bmoral identity and free will /
_cDavid Weissman.
264 1 _bOpen Book Publishers,
300 _a1 online resource (210 pages) :
_b2 illustrations.
500 _aAvailable through Open Book Publishers.
504 _aIncludes bibliography (pages 179-183) and index.
505 0 _aContents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / David Weissman -- Chapter One: Agency / David Weissman. 1. Semantics ; 2. Two Points of R eference ; 3. Individuality ; 4. Purpose/Intention ; 5. Sensibility ; 6. Thought and Perception ; 7. Competence and Skill ; 8. Effort ; 9. Partners ; 10. Efficacy ; 11. Oversight ; 12. Frustration ; 13. Will -- Chapter Two: Free Will / David Weissman. 1. Introduction ; 2. Background ; 3. Freedom To and Freedom From ; 4. Ontology ; 5. Universal Determinism ; 6. Explanation/Prediction ; 7. Cause or Capacity ; 8. Leibniz or Laplace ; 9. "Things Are Not Up to Us." ; 10. Emergent Wholes, Their Properties and Powers ; 11. Character/Sensibility ; 12. Initiative ; 13. Productive Imagination ; 14. Consciousness ; 15. Choosing Freely ; 16. Last Thoughts -- Chapter Three: Socialization / David Weissman. 1. Conflicted Aims ; 2.Idiosyncrasy ; 3. Talent ; 4. Interiority ; 5. Social Space ; 6. Normativity ; 7. Socialization ; 8. Collaboration, Cooperation, Command ; 9. Cities ; 10. Disequilibrium -- Chapter Four: Autonomy / David Weissman. 1. Minerva ; 2. Semantics ; 3. Assertion ; 4. Self-Identification ; 5. Collaboration/Contention ; 6. Regulation ; 7. Oversight ; 8. In Itself, For Itself -- Chapter Five: Moral Identity / David Weissman. 1. Three Perspectives: Agents ; 2. Three Perspectives: Nodes ; 3. Three Perspectives: The Whole -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
506 _aOpen access resource providing free access.
520 _a"There is agency in all we do: thinking, doing, or making. We invent a tune, play, or use it to celebrate an occasion. Or we make a conceptual leap and ask more abstract questions about the conditions for agency. They include autonomy and self-appraisal, each contested by arguments immersing us in circumstances we don't control. But can it be true we that have no personal responsibility for all we think and do? Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will proposes that deliberation, choice, and free will emerged within the evolutionary history of animals with a physical advantage: organisms having cell walls or exoskeletons had an internal space within which to protect themselves from external threats or encounters. This defense was both structural and active: such organisms could ignore intrusions or inhibit risky behavior. Their capacities evolved with time: inhibition became the power to deliberate and choose the manner of one's responses. Hence the ability of humans and some other animals to determine their reactions to problematic situations or to information that alters values and choices. This is free will as a material power, not as the conclusion to a conceptual argument. Having it makes us morally responsible for much we do. It prefigures moral identity. Closely argued but plainly written, Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will speaks for autonomy and responsibility when both are eclipsed by ideas that embed us in history or tradition. Our sense of moral choice and freedom is accurate. We are not altogether the creatures of our circumstances."--Publisher's website.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
540 _aThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.
650 0 _aAgent (Philosophy)
650 0 _aDecision-making
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aFree will and determinism.
710 2 _aOpen Book Publishers,
_epublisher.
856 4 0 _uhttp://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0197
_zConnect to e-book
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