Jesus H Aguilar

New Waves in Philosophy of Action - New Waves in Philosophy Jesus H Aguilar

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avaialble in paper. Biographical Note: JESUS H. AGUILAR is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is co-editor with Andrei Buckareff of "Philosophy of Action: 5 Questions" (2009) and "Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Casual Theory of Action" (forthcoming). He has published articles on topics in philosophy of mind and action, Latin-American philosophy, and philosophy of literature. ANDREI A. BUCKAREFF is Assistant Professor at Marist College, USA. He has published articles on topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind and action, and philosophy of religion. KEITH FRANKISH is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University, UK and Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme of the University of Crete. He is author of "Mind and Supermind" (2004), "Consciousness" (2005) and numerous articles. He is also co-editor of "In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond" (2009). Table of Contents: Series Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPART I: FOUNDATIONS OF ACTION AND AGENCY Agency, Ownership, and the Standard Theory; "M. E. Schlosser"Failing to do the Impossible; "C. Sartorio"Experimental Philosophy of Action; "T. Nadelhoffer"PART II: AUTONOMY Identification, Psychology, and Habits; "B. Pollard"Mass Perverse Identification: An Argument for a Modest Concept of Autonomy; "Y. Shemmer"Cartesian Reflections on the Autonomy of the Mental; "M. Soteriou"PART III: FREE AGENCYThe Revisionist Turn: A Brief History of Recent Work on Free Will; "M. Vargas"Luck and Free Will; "N. Levy"Experimental Philosophy on Free Will: An Error Theory for Incompatibilist Intuitions; "E. Nahmias"&"D. Murray"PART IV: ACTION AND AGENCY IN CONTEXT Agentive Experiences as Pushmi-Pullyu Representations; "T. Bayne"Double Bookkeeping in Delusions: Explaining the Gap Between Saying and Doing; "L. Bortolotti"The Limits of Rationality in Collective Action Explanations; "S. R. Chant"IndexOriginal contributionsNew research dataResearch trend settingInterdisciplinary contentA collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by some of the best young philosophers working on the myriad problems of action and agency. Each one has already made important contributions to the philosophy of action and cognate areas. The chapters reflect their research and make a significant contribution to some debate in the field. JESUS H. AGUILAR is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is co-editor with Andrei Buckareff of "Philosophy of Action: 5 Questions" (2009) and "Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Casual Theory of Action" (forthcoming). He has published articles on topics in philosophy of mind and action, Latin-American philosophy, and philosophy of literature. ANDREI A. BUCKAREFF is Assistant Professor at Marist College, USA. He has published articles on topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind and action, and philosophy of religion. KEITH FRANKISH is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University, UK and Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme of the University of Crete. He is author of "Mind and Supermind" (2004), "Consciousness" (2005) and numerous articles. He is also co-editor of "In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond" (2009).

Contributor Bio:  Buckareff, Andrei A Andrei A. Buckareff is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marist College. Contributor Bio:  Frankish, Keith Keith Frankish is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, The Open University. He has published in Analysis and Philosophical Psychology and contributed to Language and Thought: Interdisciplinary Themes eds. Carruthers and Boucher (Cambridge, 1998).