書目名稱 | Intention and Agency | 編輯 | Donald F. Gustafson | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/471/470335/470335.mp4 | 叢書名稱 | Philosophical Studies Series | 圖書封面 |  | 描述 | The powers of seeing, hearing, re- membering, distinguishing, judging, reason- ing, are speculative powers; the power of ex- ecuting any work of art or labour is active power. Thomas Reid I Some causal efficacy is due to persons. And, some of the causal efficacy due to persons is imparted by, not merely to, them. Further, some of the causal efficacy due to persons and imparted by them is imparted by and not merely to their physical, active bodies. Otherwise there is no agency. I will assume, with everyone at the outset, that the world contains agency of the kind found in some of a person‘s comings and goings, movings and changing of things. Agency is exhibited in more and in less sophisticated forms, that is, in any sophisticated, artful activity and in less complex, non-articulate physical activities. In both there appears to be more than mere causal efficacy imparted to the environment by a person. In sophisticated agen- cy activities are organized, guided, purposive and purposeful comings and goings, movings and changes. And purpose is not absent in less soph- isticated purposive activities of active creatures. So I shall argue in what follows. Now is the time for introducing th | 出版日期 | Book 1986 | 關(guān)鍵詞 | dynamics; future; intention; model; structure; subject | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4520-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-8514-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-4520-3Series ISSN 0921-8599 Series E-ISSN 2542-8349 | issn_series | 0921-8599 | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986 |
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