Search Results for volition

... valuing and volitional openness are mutually supportive. In aesthetic community, agents’ patterns of discretionary valuing and inclinations to be volitionally open are conducive to their sharing, self-expressing, imitating, and the like. Aesthetic community thus requires the balanced exercise of both...

.... The first group contains two essays (one previously published) on the individuation of action. The second contains four essays (three previously published) that argue for the view that what makes an event an action is, not how it is caused, but that it is, or begins with, a volition...

... discourse. If volitions just are tryings, then volitionism might be greeted with less skepticism. Cleveland rejects this volitional understanding of trying, and sketches an alternative account. Volitionists take willing to be necessary for any action involving overt bodily movement (without...

...) and the “practical thinking” view (currently enjoying prominence), and demonstrates convincingly that neither account for the three criteria that Schapiro puts forth: (1) inclinations exert asymmetric volitional pressure ; (2) inclinations are nonvoluntary ; (3) inclinations play a deliberative role...

... are the causal antecedents of actions, while the second main- tains that actions are mental events caused by other internal events. Enç believes that despite their substantial differences these two theories share a fundamental commitment to “irreducible acts of volition that are supposed...

..., and our appraisability for our thoughts when dreaming. Haji’s control condition for appraisability requires that the agent have volitional control of the action: in brief, she must intend to perform it and the intention must arise from a process of practical reasoning that appeals...

... of interrelated topics that he is thus led to address includes motives and rea- sons for action (chap. l);desires, volitions, and affections (chap. 2); moral rnoti- vation (chap. 3);moral sentiments (chap. 4); the artificiality ofjustice (chap. 5); motives to justice (chap. 6); and the nature of moral...

... and succeeds in moving one’s body, one lacks this volition-like entity involving de re intention concerning brain activity. So Cleveland’s treatment of paralysis seems to push him toward a version of the very volitionism he rejects. Despite these reservations, Cleveland provides thorough...

... causation. The third chapter introduces yet another subtlety by drawing a further distinction between two ways of understanding how God’s volitions relate to his causal efficacy. Malebranche maintains that God acts by general volitions. But how are we to understand this claim? On what might...

... causation. The third chapter introduces yet another subtlety by drawing a further distinction between two ways of understanding how God’s volitions relate to his causal efficacy. Malebranche maintains that God acts by general volitions. But how are we to understand this claim? On what might...

... causation. The third chapter introduces yet another subtlety by drawing a further distinction between two ways of understanding how God’s volitions relate to his causal efficacy. Malebranche maintains that God acts by general volitions. But how are we to understand this claim? On what might...

... causation. The third chapter introduces yet another subtlety by drawing a further distinction between two ways of understanding how God’s volitions relate to his causal efficacy. Malebranche maintains that God acts by general volitions. But how are we to understand this claim? On what might...

... causation. The third chapter introduces yet another subtlety by drawing a further distinction between two ways of understanding how God’s volitions relate to his causal efficacy. Malebranche maintains that God acts by general volitions. But how are we to understand this claim? On what might...

... causation. The third chapter introduces yet another subtlety by drawing a further distinction between two ways of understanding how God’s volitions relate to his causal efficacy. Malebranche maintains that God acts by general volitions. But how are we to understand this claim? On what might...

... causation. The third chapter introduces yet another subtlety by drawing a further distinction between two ways of understanding how God’s volitions relate to his causal efficacy. Malebranche maintains that God acts by general volitions. But how are we to understand this claim? On what might...

... causation. The third chapter introduces yet another subtlety by drawing a further distinction between two ways of understanding how God’s volitions relate to his causal efficacy. Malebranche maintains that God acts by general volitions. But how are we to understand this claim? On what might...

... to limit the damage. Where taking a passage seriously makes the interpretive issues complicated, he embraces the complications. For example, Locke stipulates that by ‘preference’, he doesn't really mean preference, but rather volition. This makes it hard to understand certain famous examples of Locke's...

... accepted in the seventeenth century. What was scorned and rejected by many early moderns was Des- cartes’s further insistence that modal truths and truth-makers depend wholly on God’s volitions (Q1) and that the nature of this dependence involves efficient causation (Q2). Perhaps most...

... of “satisfaction” with the stronger notion of “volitional necessity” (see Frankfurt 1999a, 138; 1999b, 111). Whereas being satisfied just meant being uninterested in making changes in one’s motivational hierarchy, being volitionally necessitated means finding such a change unthinkable. On this modified view...

... of a thought or a volition, things really distinct from the substance. (T 391) So the basic model of cooperation itself is not to be rejected and the thoughts and volitions of a finite substance as modifications or states of 220 LEIBNIZ ON DIVINE...