Can and Might

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1 (1):87 - 92 (1971)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Against Richard Taylor's position (Action and Purpose,Prentice Hall,1966) that there is some further factor in agency that in one of its roles supplements the contingency of an action that is freely performed

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1080/00455091.1971.10716010

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 100,937

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Action and Purpose. By Richard Taylor. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1966. Pp. 269 + xiv. Price 48s.). [REVIEW]Gary Iseminger - 1968 - Philosophy 43 (163):73-.
Power and Causal Possibility.Douglas Walton - 1973 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (2):281 - 284.
Where is the free agency in personal agency?C. G. Pulman - 2011 - Philosophical Quarterly 61 (244):630-632.
On the action of social groups.Rolf Gruner - 1976 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 19 (1-4):443 – 454.
R. Taylor's "Action and Purpose". [REVIEW]Archie J. Bahm - 1967 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (2):290.
Feelings of control: Contingency determines experience of action.James W. Moore, David Lagnado, Darvany C. Deal & Patrick Haggard - 2009 - Cognition 110 (2):279-283.
Choice and Chance. By K. W. Rankin. [REVIEW]A. R. Lacey - 1963 - Philosophy 38 (144):188-188.
Action: Offshoring Strategies, Creative Governance, and Subnational Island Jurisdictions.Rowland Stout - 2006 - McGill-Queen's University Press.
Inferring sense of agency from the quantitative aspect of action outcome.Takahiro Kawabe - 2013 - Consciousness and Cognition 22 (2):407-412.
Theory of Knowledge. By Roderick M. Chisholm Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Pp. x, 117. $2.15.Michael Fox - 1967 - Dialogue 6 (1):118-121.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-05-29

Downloads
42 (#532,324)

6 months
13 (#258,769)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Kenneth Rankin
University of Victoria

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Free Will Involving Determinism.Philippa Foot - 1957 - Philosophical Review 66 (4):439.
Doer and doing.K. W. Rankin - 1960 - Mind 69 (275):361-371.

Add more references