书名: Agent Causality (Synthese Library)
作者: Fred Vollmer (Author)
出版社: Springer; Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999 edition (December 6, 2010)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 9048152720
ISBN-13: 978-9048152728
Book Description
Who - or what - is an agent? How - in virtue of what - does an agent do things, or refrain from doing them?
In this attempt to understand the concept of agent causality, Vollmer proposes that persons are in control of their actions in virtue of reflective consciousness, consisting of a primary, intrinsic, nonobservational awareness of one's own activity, and a capacity to form second-order thoughts about such activity.
According to traditional action theory, only behaviour that an agent is aware of performing (under some description) counts as action. In Vollmer's view, however, reflective consciousness plays a more important role than just determining what someone is doing, or under what description the action is intentional. Reflective consciousness is what gives you control and renders you free. Reflective consciousness is what you are.
Readership: Professionals and students interested in theoretical psychology and the theory of action.
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作者: Fred Vollmer (Author)
出版社: Springer; Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999 edition (December 6, 2010)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 9048152720
ISBN-13: 978-9048152728
Book Description
Who - or what - is an agent? How - in virtue of what - does an agent do things, or refrain from doing them?
In this attempt to understand the concept of agent causality, Vollmer proposes that persons are in control of their actions in virtue of reflective consciousness, consisting of a primary, intrinsic, nonobservational awareness of one's own activity, and a capacity to form second-order thoughts about such activity.
According to traditional action theory, only behaviour that an agent is aware of performing (under some description) counts as action. In Vollmer's view, however, reflective consciousness plays a more important role than just determining what someone is doing, or under what description the action is intentional. Reflective consciousness is what gives you control and renders you free. Reflective consciousness is what you are.
Readership: Professionals and students interested in theoretical psychology and the theory of action.
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