Download or read book The Volitional Theory of Causation written by W. J. Mander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a history of the volitional theory of causation—the philosophical proposal that volition, or will, of the same or broadly the same stamp as that which we experience in our own deliberate and voluntary doings, should be taken as the basis for all causality. Few today know much about the volitional theory of causation, and even fewer have given it any serious attention. But if current opinion regards this suggestion as an unusual one, of minor importance, the historical record shows otherwise, revealing that it is a theory which has been proposed and developed again and again throughout the modern era. Its obscurity is only a recent phenomenon. Starting at the beginning of the Early Modern period and progressing right up the modern times, the historical discussion takes in both supporters and critics, as well as both famous and less well-known figures, to tell the story of a long-running debate which contemporary history of philosophy has forgotten. The principal figures discussed are Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Maine de Biran, Schopenhauer, Mansel, Mill, Martineau, Alexander Campbell Fraser, Borden Parker Bowne, and G.F.Stout, although many other philosophers are also considered. The book ends with a consider of the philosophical merits of the theory.
Download or read book The Volitional Theory of Causation written by W. J. Mander and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traces the development of a philosophical theory about causality - the volitional theory of causation - which supposes the underlying nature of causation as something revealed to us in the experience of our own will. It offers both a history of philosophy and a chance to think about the complex puzzles of both causation and human will.
Download or read book The Causational and Free Will Theories of Volition written by Malcolm Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Volition and Allied Causal Concepts written by Avi Sion and published by Avi Sion. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volition and Allied Causal Concepts is a work of aetiology and metapsychology. Aetiology is the branch of philosophy and logic devoted to the study of causality (the cause-effect relation) in all its forms; and metapsychology is the study of the basic concepts common to all psychological discourse, most of which are causal. This is a work of ambitious scope, intent on finally resolving philosophical and logical issues that have always impeded progress in psychology.
Download or read book Wish and Will written by George Lyon Turner and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Volition and Causation written by Mark William Olson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive written by John Stuart Mill and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation written by John Stuart Mill and published by Longmans, Green 1851.. This book was released on 1868 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation written by Mill and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Theory of the Fine Arts Considered in Relation to Mental and Physical Conditions of Human Existence written by Stephen M. Lanigan and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy 1637 1739 written by Kenneth Clatterbaugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy examines the debate that began as modern science separated itself from natural philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book specifically explores the two dominant approaches to causation as a metaphysical problem and as a scientific problem.
Download or read book The Neural Basis of Free Will written by Peter Tse and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. This book examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective. In contrast with philosophers who use logic rather than data to argue whether mental causation or consciousness can exist given unproven first assumptions, Tse proposes that we instead listen to what neurons have to say. Because the brain must already embody a solution to the mind--body problem, why not focus on how the brain actually realizes mental causation? Tse draws on exciting recent neuroscientific data concerning how informational causation is realized in physical causation at the level of NMDA receptors, synapses, dendrites, neurons, and neuronal circuits. He argues that a particular kind of strong free will and downward mental causation are realized in rapid synaptic plasticity. Recent neurophysiological breakthroughs reveal that neurons function as criterial assessors of their inputs, which then change the criteria that will make other neurons fire in the future. Such informational causation cannot change the physical basis of information realized in the present, but it can change the physical basis of information that may be realized in the immediate future. This gets around the standard argument against free will centered on the impossibility of self-causation. Tse explores the ways that mental causation and qualia might be realized in this kind of neuronal and associated information-processing architecture, and considers the psychological and philosophical implications of having such an architecture realized in our brains.
Download or read book Causality Interpretation and the Mind written by William Child and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1994-03-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Child examines two central ideas in the philosophy of mind, and argues that (contrary to what many philosophers have thought) an understanding of the mind can and should include both. These are causalism, the idea that causality plays an essential role in our understanding of the mental; and interpretationism, the idea that we can gain an understanding of belief and desire by considering the ascription of attitudes to people on the basis of what they say and do.
