Format:
1 online resource (178 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783030261146
Series Statement:
Virtues and Economics Series v.5
Content:
Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics -- Preface and Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Part I: Theory -- Chapter 1: Free Will & -- Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Philosophical Worries -- 1.3 The Neuroscientific Worries -- 1.3.1 What Is "Conscious Will"? -- 1.4 Epiphenomenalism and Freedom of the Will -- 1.4.1 Purported Conditions of Action -- 1.4.2 Naturalistic Purported Conditions of Freedom -- 1.4.2.1 Acting on the Basis of Choices -- 1.4.2.2 Reasons Responsiveness -- 1.4.2.3 Harmony with Deeper Values -- 1.4.2.4 Alternative Possibilities -- 1.4.3 Non-Naturalistic Purported Conditions of Freedom -- 1.4.3.1 Conscious Origination -- 1.4.3.2 Immunity from Prior Influence -- 1.5 Epiphenomenalism and Free Will Scepticism -- 1.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Causality, Agency and Change -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mainstream Economics, Ontological Neglect and the Denial of Agency -- 2.3 Humean Causality and Event Focussed Conceptions of Change -- 2.4 Defending a Depth Realism -- 2.5 Situating Agency and Choice Within Nature -- 2.6 Causality, Change and Social Transformation -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: How Economics Becomes Ideology: The Uses and Abuses of Rational Choice Theory -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Rational Choice and Scientific Causality -- 3.3 Rational Choice and Neoliberal Ideology -- 3.4 An Alternative Rational Choice -- Chapter 4: Economics, Agency, and Causal Explanation -- 4.1 Economics and Agency -- 4.2 Agency and Causation -- 4.2.1 Defending the Basic Argument for a Causal View of Reason-Explanation -- 4.2.2 The Many Faces of Causal Explanation -- 4.2.3 Conclusion -- 4.3 Causation in the Social Sciences and in the Natural Sciences -- References -- Chapter 5: Causation and Agency.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030261139
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030261139
Language:
English
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