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SUMMARY:The Metaphysics of Agency - Lecture III. . Agency and Time
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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\n<p><strong>Lecture III. Agency and Time</strong></p>\n<p>6 November (Monday) 15:30 p.m.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>[Abstract]</p>\n<p>Much of the philosophical debate about time invites us to treat eternalism\, possibilism and presentism as rival models of time between which we must choose. I consider how the data of agency may affect such a choice. I think that an idea of that which is (or was) <em>ongoing</em> [cp. the imperfective aspect of lecture 1] is inadequately understood in much of the philosophical literature on time. I&rsquo\;ll conclude with a suggestion about the understanding of tensed language.</p>\n&nbsp\;
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