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Active Powers and Powerful Actors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2010

Rom Harré
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The usual context for raising the issue of ‘agent-causation’ is that of human action. Cf. the excellent recent book by Fred Vollmer (1999). And a long list of articles. The motivation for mounting a defence of the propriety of agent causation might be to restore moral concepts to a place in human life, via responsibility of actors for their actions, threatened by event (internal or external) causality explanation formats.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 48 , September 2001 , pp. 91 - 109
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2001

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