Agents Abilities - Couverture souple

Jaster, Romy

 
9783110777505: Agents Abilities
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3110777509 ISBN 13 : 9783110777505
Editeur : De Gruyter, 2022

Synopsis

Almost everyone can run. Only very few can run a marathon. But what is it for agents to be able to do things? This question, while central to many debates in philosophy, is still awaiting a comprehensive answer. The book provides just that. Drawing on some valuable insights from previous works of abilities and making use of possible world semantics, Jaster develops the "success view", a view on which abilities are a matter of successful behavior. Along the way, she explores the gradable nature of abilities, the contextsensitivity of ability statements, the difference between general and specific abilities, the relationship between abilities and dispositions, and the ability to act otherwise. The book is mandatory reading for anyone working on abilities, and provides valuable insights for anyone dealing with agents' abilities in other fields of philosophy.

For this book, Romy Jaster has received both the Wolfgang Stegmüller Prize and the De Gruyter Prize for Analytical Philosophy of Mind or Metaphysics/Ontology.

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À propos de l?auteur

Romy Jaster, HU Berlin.

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Éditeur
De Gruyter
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3110777509
ISBN 13 
9783110777505
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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9783110648270: Agents’ Abilities

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  311064827X ISBN 13 :  9783110648270
Editeur : De Gruyter, 2020
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