First-personal aspects of agency

Metaphilosophy

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Baker, Lynne Rudder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Agency; Causation; Constitution view; Davidson; First person concept; First person perspective; First personal aspects of agency; Human action; Intentional explanation; Moral agency; Neural phenomena; Nonhuman action; Persons; Practical reasoning; Rational agency

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651381133     PISSN: 00261068     EISSN: 14679973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2010.01677.x     Document Type: Review

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