The Irreducibility of Our Agency to Events and/or States
Abstract
In this chapter, I extend and defend the position that productive action is, in some respect, the causing of change; the forming of an intention is the process of forming an intentional state; an intentional state is a disposition; and that the manifestation of a disposition is irreducibly the process of a substance that has the disposition to give or cause a certain response giving or causing that response under the conditions particular to manifesting that disposition.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Critical Realism in Sociology
Free Will and Agency
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 13–44
- Publication date
- 12 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter