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SUMMARY:The Metaphysics of Agency - Lecture I. Cause and Causativity
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LOCATION:No.18\, SiYuan St.\, Zhongzheng Dist.\, Taipei City\, Taiwan\, 100
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>The Metaphysics of Agency</strong></p>\n<p>[Abstract]</p>\n<p>There is agency\, one might say\, when something does something. A something that does things&mdash\;an agent&mdash\;may be a person\, a non-human animal\, or an inanimate object. Things that may be done by something are many and various (exactly the range of do-able things evidently depends upon the sort of agent in question). In the course of these lectures I introduce\, and attempt to answer\, a variety of inter-related metaphysical questions that arise in connection with agency &ndash\; whether\, human\, animal or inanimate. I suggest that a correct philosophy of mind requires a correct understanding of causality\, and that this is an understanding best brought to the fore by considering what agency itself (in any of its varieties) involves.</p>\n<p><strong>Lecture I. Cause and Causativity</strong></p>\n<p>1 November (Wednesday) 15:30 p.m.</p>\n<p>[Abstract]</p>\n<p>I explore &ldquo\;agential verbs&rdquo\;&mdash\;verbs which cast any subject of which they&rsquo\;re predicated in the role of an agent\, many of which have been called &ldquo\;causatives&rdquo\;. [Examples are: &lsquo\;scrape&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;carry&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;wet&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;push over&rsquo\;\, knock down&rsquo\;.] I scrutinize the conception of events that Donald Davidson brings to bear in his understanding of agency\, and argue that although agency is a causal notion\, it cannot be understood in terms of a relation cause. To this end\, I shall say something about verb tense and verb aspect\, in order to bring out the importance of recognizing that verbal predications may have so-called imperfective aspect [as in &lsquo\;She was/is scraping the plate&rsquo\;\; contrast &lsquo\;She scraped the plate&rsquo\;].</p>
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