Titlebook: Options and Agency; John T. Maier Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Sw

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Foundations,er explains the idea of an option and its connection to other core philosophical topics: modality, decision theory, and free will. Finally, I outline the argument of the remainder of this book, and how the idea of an option binds this argument together.

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The Simplicity of Options,tically simple? In this chapter, I argue against reductive analyses of options, and advocate the view that options are analytically simple. I then defend two principles about options—the Performance Principle and the Possibility Principle—that will be crucial for the subsequent discussion.

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A Picture of Agentive Possibility,e present view is not Humean, but not Aristotelian either. I describe the distinctive picture of agentive possibility suggested by the foregoing discussion, and indicate the plan of the final two chapters: to show how this picture of agentive possibility yields a novel approach to the traditional problem of free will.

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Book 2022 an option should be taken as primitive, and that other agentive notions – such as ability, skill, and free will – should be understood in terms of options. .The main contributions of this book are twofold. First, it resolves many of the outstanding questions in the metaphysics and semantics of agen

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ave been central to philosophy since Aristotle.Articulates aThis book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents. The central thesis is that the idea of an option should be taken as primitive, and that other agentive notions – such as ability

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Simple Compatibilism,n mistakes about the logical properties of options. Simple compatibilism allows us to take options as basic elements in a constructive account of the world, a world that includes agents such as ourselves.