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Introduction A conference under the title "Agents and their Actions" was held in September 2000 in the University of Bielefeld, Germany. The following ten articles are revised versions of papers delivered at this conference. The guiding idea of the conference was this. Recent discussions both in the metaphysics of action and in the theory of practical rationality, while yielding a variety of highly sophisticated conceptions, have yet become somewhat stale. Battle-lines are fixed and camps well-entrenched, but a truly comprehensive and illuminating view of agency is hard to find. As a remedy we suggested to follow the advice of various recent writers and place the agent centre stage in our understanding of agency. What precisely could this central position consist in? - an answer to this question was what we invited the speakers at our conference to provide. The papers collected here fall roughly into three groups. The first four deal with agency from the perspective of a metaphysics of action. Jonathan Lowe defends an analysis of agency in terms of agent causation, arguing that agent causation not only cannot be reduced to, but is in fact prior to, event causation. Ralf Stoecker, taking the mark of agency to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grazer Philosophische Studien Brill

Introduction

Grazer Philosophische Studien , Volume 61 (1): v – Jun 1, 2001
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Copyright 2001 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0165-9227
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10.1163/18756735-061001002
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Abstract

A conference under the title "Agents and their Actions" was held in September 2000 in the University of Bielefeld, Germany. The following ten articles are revised versions of papers delivered at this conference. The guiding idea of the conference was this. Recent discussions both in the metaphysics of action and in the theory of practical rationality, while yielding a variety of highly sophisticated conceptions, have yet become somewhat stale. Battle-lines are fixed and camps well-entrenched, but a truly comprehensive and illuminating view of agency is hard to find. As a remedy we suggested to follow the advice of various recent writers and place the agent centre stage in our understanding of agency. What precisely could this central position consist in? - an answer to this question was what we invited the speakers at our conference to provide. The papers collected here fall roughly into three groups. The first four deal with agency from the perspective of a metaphysics of action. Jonathan Lowe defends an analysis of agency in terms of agent causation, arguing that agent causation not only cannot be reduced to, but is in fact prior to, event causation. Ralf Stoecker, taking the mark of agency to

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Published: Jun 1, 2001

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