"Thomas Reid on Character and Freedom"
I have posted a new draft to my
workbench, "Thomas Reid on Character and Freedom". As always, comments are welcome.
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Abilities and Tryings
I am trying to write a seminar paper about the ability to try (or perhaps the ability to will, or the ability to choose). It seems to me that commonsense recognizes, in at least certain situations, a non-trivial question about whether an agent has the ability to try to perform an action. However, given the close connection between the concepts of ability and trying, there is reason to believe that the question might be trivial, or even incoherent, after all. This is the issue I am investigating, and I'm going to try to do some blogging on the subject in...
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Abilities
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Action Theory
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Historical Thinkers
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Jennifer Hornsby
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Kadri Vihvelin
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Metaphysics
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Michael Fara
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Paul Grice
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Philosophy
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Richard Taylor
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Trying
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