The Agent as Her Self: How Taking Agency Seriously Leads to Emergent Dualism

To act is to be the author of an intentional bodily movement. I will show that, in order for that authorship to be assured, the agent must both amount to more than the mereological sum of her mental or neural states and events, and have an irreducible causal power over, at least, some of them. Hence...

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Main Author: Maria Joana Rigato
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2016-04-01
Series:Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
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Online Access:http://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/view/rifp.2016.0005/600