What Could a Two-Way Power Be?

K Frost - Topoi, 2020 - Springer
Alvarez and Steward think the power of agency is a two-way power; Lowe thinks the will is.
There is a problem for two-way powers. Either there is a unified description of the …

Explaining free will by rational abilities

F Hofmann - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2022 - Springer
In this paper I present an account of the rational abilities that make our decisions free.
Following the lead of new dispositionalists, a leeway account of free decisions is developed …

Responses

H Steward - Inquiry, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
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Two-way powers as derivative powers

AA Buckareff - Mental action and the conscious mind, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Some philosophers working on the metaphysics of agency argue that if agency is
understood in terms of settling the truth of some matters, then the power required for the …

[PDF][PDF] Power Collapse

J Zakkou - 2022 - juliazakkou.net
What distinguishes things that are endowed with agency from those that lack it? Some
scholars in the Aristotelian tradition suggest a distinction in terms of two kinds of powers …

자유의본성에관한넓은원천양립불가론과외재적양방력이론

조민수 - 2022 - s-space.snu.ac.kr
원천 양립불가론에 의하면 행위자는 오직 자신이 수행한 행위의 원천인 경우에 한하여 그것에
대해 도덕적 책임을 지며 문제의 원천-관계는 인과적 결정론이 참인 세계에서 성립할 수 없다 …

Aristotle's Rational Powers and the Explanation of Action

F Grgić - Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
In this paper, I discuss Aristotle's notion of rational powers as presented in his Metaphysics
Θ. 2 and Θ. 5. I argue, first, that his account cannot serve as the model for explaining human …

Mental Causation and the Metaphysics of Action

AS White - 2018 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
The subject of this dissertation is the problem of mental causation: the problem of how the
mental is able to causally interact with the physical. I show that the problem of mental …