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Freedom and reflection : Hegel and the logic of agency / Christopher Yeomans

Author
Yeomans, Christopher
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
xiii, 275 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Hegel and Free Will -- 1.1.Hegel and the Traditional Problem of Free Will -- 1.2.Hegel's Theory of Free Will -- 2.The Problem of Expression as the Problem of Reflection -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Internal and External Determination in the Doctrine of Being -- 2.3.Internal and External Determination in the Concept of Reflection -- 2.4.Elements of the Theory of Reflection in Hegel's Moral Psychology -- 2.5.The Shape of the Project -- 3.The Externality of Explanations and the Problem of an Infinite Regress -- 4.Self-Explanation as the Basic Form of Explanation -- 4.1.Ground as Expression -- 4.2.Internal and External Determination in Explanations -- 4.3.The Argument for Explanation as a Three-Term Relation -- 4.4.The Role of Conditions as the Third Term in Explanation -- 4.5.The Infection of Internality by the Conditions -- 4.6.Holism About Explanation -- 5.The Agent as a Locus of Self-Explanation -- 6.The Necessity of Action and the Problem of Alternate Possibilities -- 7.Modality in Hegel's Logic -- 7.1.Modality as the Structure of Self-Expression -- 7.2.Contingency as a Unity of Actuality and Possibility -- 7.3.The Modal Continuum -- 7.4.The Necessity of Alternate Possibilities -- 8.Agency as True Necessity -- 8.1.Willkür and Wille -- 8.2.The Modal Argument for Hegel's Conception of the Free Will -- 9.The Mechanistic Challenge and the Problem of Passivity -- 10.Teleology, Mechanism, and Causation -- 10.1.The Question of Priority -- 10.2.Productivity as Expression -- 10.3.Freedom as Substance-Causation -- 10.4.The Passivity of Mechanical Causation -- 10.5.Causation as Reciprocal Interaction -- 10.6.Reciprocal Interaction as Freedom -- 10.7.The Teleological Form of Reciprocal Self-Determination -- 11.Teleological Agency -- 11.1.Arguments Against Determinism -- 11.2.A Teleological Philosophy of Action -- 12.Conclusion.
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ISBN
9780199794522 (alk. paper)
0199794529 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
UP-PAT copy: A gift made in memory of Mark A. Levine by Linda S. Levine; 2011.
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