Title: Freedom and reflection : Hegel and the logic of agency /
Authors: Yeomans, Christopher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,; Free will and determinism; Philosophy.
Abstract: While many interpreters hold that Hegel avoided the traditional problem of free will, Yeomans argues both that the problem is unavoidable, and that the two versions of the Logic fruitfully engage the tensions between explicability and both the control and alternate possibilities constitutive of free agency.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Hegel and Free Will -- 1.1. Hegel and the Traditional Problem of Free Will -- 1.2. Hegel's Theory of Free Will -- 2. The Problem of Expression as the Problem of Reflection -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Internal and External Determination in the Doctrine of Being -- 2.3. Internal and External Determination in the Concept of Reflection -- 2.4. Elements of the Theory of Reflection in Hegel's Moral Psychology -- 2.5. The Shape of the Project -- 3. The Externality of Explanations and the Problem of an Infinite Regress -- 4. Self-Explanation as the Basic Form of Explanation -- 4.1. Ground as Expression -- 4.2. Internal and External Determination in Explanations -- 4.3. The Argument for Explanation as a Three-Term Relation -- 4.4. The Role of Conditions as the Third Term in Explanation -- 4.5. The Infection of Internality by the Conditions -- 4.6. Holism About Explanation -- 5. The Agent as a Locus of Self-Explanation -- 6. The Necessity of Action and the Problem of Alternate Possibilities -- 7. Modality in Hegel's Logic -- 7.1. Modality as the Structure of Self-Expression -- 7.2. Contingency as a Unity of Actuality and Possibility -- 7.3. The Modal Continuum -- 7.4. The Necessity of Alternate Possibilities -- 8. Agency as True Necessity -- 8.1. Willkür and Wille -- 8.2. The Modal Argument for Hegel's Conception of the Free Will -- 9. The Mechanistic Challenge and the Problem of Passivity -- 10. Teleology, Mechanism, and Causation -- 10.1. The Question of Priority -- 10.2. Productivity as Expression -- 10.3. Freedom as Substance-Causation -- 10.4. The Passivity of Mechanical Causation -- 10.5. Causation as Reciprocal Interaction -- 10.6. Reciprocal Interaction as Freedom -- 10.7. The Teleological Form of Reciprocal Self-Determination -- 11. Teleological Agency -- 11.1. Arguments Against Determinism -- 11.2.A Teleological Philosophy of Action -- 12. Conclusion.