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title:The Acts of Our Being : A Reflection On Agency and Responsibility
author:Pols, Edward.
publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin:0870233548
print isbn13:9780870233548
ebook isbn13:9780585142197
language:English
subjectAgent (Philosophy) , Responsibility, Knowledge, Theory of.
publication date:1982
lcc:BD450.P577 1982eb
ddc:128/.4
subject:Agent (Philosophy) , Responsibility, Knowledge, Theory of.
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The Acts of Our Being
A Reflection on Agency and Responsibility
Edward Pols
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, 1982
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Copyright 1982 by Edward Pols
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
LC 81-16319 ISBN 0-87023-354-8
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
appear on the last printed page of this book.
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
I
The Question of the Authenticity of Responsibility
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1. The Prima Facie Explanatory Value of Rational Action
2. Contemporary Doubts about the Authenticity of Responsibility
3. Two Ways of Settling the Question and a Via Media
4. An Anticipatory Supposition: The Nature of Rational Action
II
The Metaphysical Conditions of Ontic Responsibility
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1. Ontic Responsibility, Moral Responsibility, Social Responsibility, and Legal Responsibility
2. Prima Facie Rational Action and the Conditions of Ontic Responsibility
3. The Conditions of Ontic Dependence, Causal Power, and Ontic Power
4. The Conditions of Explanatory Ultimacy and Explanatory Opacity
5. The Conditions of Partial Determinateness and Positive Indeterminateness (Ontic Potentiality)
6. The Condition of Rational Obligation
7. The Condition of Ontically Significant Appearance
8. Degree of Ontic Responsibility
9. Social Consequences of the Rejection of Ontic Responsibility
III
The Foundation Question Reopened: The Circle of Action and Knowledge
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1. The Ineluctable Circle: Prima Facie Rational Action and Our Prima Facie Knowledge of It
2. Towards a Reflexive Exploitation of the Circle
3. The Question of a Foundation for Knowledge
4. The Crypto-

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foundational Consensus about Language
5. The True Foundational Task and the Role of Language
6. An Interpersonal Reflection on Our Prima Facie Knowledge of Rational Action
IV
The Conditions Fulfilled: A Reflexive Vindication
112
1. The Primary-Reflexive Nature of the Enterprise
2. An Interpersonal Reflection on Prima Facie Rational Action
3. The Circle Transformed: The Radical Autonomy of the Reflexive Rational Agent
4. The Epistemology of Reflexive Rational Action: A Practical Postulate
V
Manifest Image vs. Ontically Significant Appearance
142
1. The Physicalist Manifest Image (PMI) Doctrine Defined
2. Rational Action as the Ground of Explanation
3. An Ancestor of the Physicalist Manifest Image Doctrine: Ancient Atomism
4. Macrostructures as Appearances in an Ideal PMI Doctrine
5. The Role of Subjectivity in the Full Concreteness of Rational Action
6. The Self-Subverting Character of the Assessment of Prima Facie Rational Action as Mere Appearance (as PMI Macroscopic)
7. Rational Action as the Ground of Ontic Assessment
VI
Rational Action and Its Physiological Basis
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1. An Ideal Theory of the Identity of Rational Action with Its Physiological Basis
2. The Ideal Theory Refined: The Real Single Referent in Such an Identity
3. Preparing to Refute the Identity Theory: Self-Referential Rational Acts
4. Refutation (A): The Problem of Explaining Self-Referential Acts by Productive Correlations
5. Refutation (B): The Problem of Explaining Self-Referential Rational Acts by Predictive Correlations
6. Refutation (C): The Self-Refuting Character of a Defense of Identity Theory That Attacks the Prima Facie Features of Self-Referential Rational Acts
7. Refutation (D): The Paradox Arising from the Expression of an RA in a PB-Language; the Persistent Dualism of RA and PB
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