Two ways to understand causality in agency

In Anton Leist (ed.), Action in Context. De Gruyter (2007)
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Abstract

An influential philosophical conception of our mind’s place in the world is as a site for the states and events that causally mediate the world we perceive and the world we affect. According to this conception, states and events in the world cause mental states and events in us through the process of perception. These mental states and events then go on to produce new states and events in the world through the process of action. Our role is as hosts for these states and events that causally mediate the states and events on the input side and those on the output side.

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Rowland Stout
University College Dublin

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