Volition and Allied Causal Concepts
Publisher: Author through Lulu.com
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9782970009160
Table of contents: title: 1.	Basic Causal Relations	11; title: 1.	Causation and volition	11; title: 2.	Causality and modality	19; title: 3.	Spontaneity	21; title: 4.	Relative vs. absolute contingency	26; title: 2.	Interactions between Volition and Causation	28; title: 1.	Necessity and inertia in causation	28; title: 2.	Direct and indirect volition	34; title: 3.	Matter-mind and spirit	39; title: 4.	Conceiving Divine volition	41; title: 5.	The study of volition	45; title: 3.	Further Analysis of Volition	49; title: 1.	Knowledge of volition	49; title: 2.	Freedom of the will	54; title: 3.	Decision and choice	59; title: 4.	Goals and means	62; title: 4.	Consciousness and Responsibility	67; title: 1.	The consciousness in volition	67; title: 2.	The factors of responsibility	73; title: 3.	Judging, and misjudging, people	79; title: 5.	Influence and Freedom	89; title: 1.	Influence occurs via consciousness	89; title: 2.	Knowledge of effort, influence and freedom	94; title: 3.	Formal analysis of influence	97; title: 4.	Incitement	103; title: 6.	Further Analysis of Influence	109; title: 1.	Some features of influence	109; title: 2.	Processes of influence	116; title: 3.	Instincts in relation to freewill	120; title: 4.	Liberation from unwanted influences	124; title: 5.	Propositions about the future	126; title: 7.	The Workings of Volition	129; title: 1.	Cultural context and epistem. considerations	129; title: 2.	Theoretical context	133; title: 3.	Stages in the process of volition	143; title: 4.	The scope of freewill	154; title: 8.	Volition and the Special Sciences	159; title: 1.	Volition and the laws of physics	159; title: 2.	Volition and biology	167; title: 3.	Therapeutic psychology	173; title: 9.	Will, Velleity and Whim	180; title: 1.	Cognition, volition and valuation	180; title: 2.	Velleity	189; title: 3.	Whim	192; title: 4.	Inner divisions	195; title: 10.	Affections and Appetites	199; title: 1.	Valuation	199; title: 2.	The main valuations	203; title: 3.	Ethology	212; title: 11.	Complications of Influence	221; title: 1.	Habits	221; title: 2.	Obsessions and compulsions	224; title: 3.	The ego abhors a vacuum	234; title: 12.	Urges and Impulses	242; title: 1.	Physical urges and impulses	242; title: 2.	Mental urges and impulses	254; title: 3.	Formal analysis of physical and mental urges	259; title: 4.	Are there drives within the soul?	263; title: 5.	Formal analysis of spiritual urges	267; title: 13.	The Quasi-Purposive in Nature	273; title: 1.	Purposiveness	273; title: 2.	Organic functions	275; title: 3.	The continuity of life	281; title: 14.	Concepts of Evolution	286; title: 1.	The logical form of evolution	286; title: 2.	Evidence for evolution	292; title: 3.	Random mutation	296; title: 4.	Natural selection	302; title: 15.	More about Evolution	308; title: 1.	Social Darwinism	308; title: 2.	Spiritual Darwinism	314; title: 3.	Theological perspectives	318; title: 16.	The Self	325; title: 1.	Ungluing the mind	325; title: 2.	Abstract vs. concrete self	329; title: 3.	Sundry reflections on the soul and God	342; title: 17.	Some Topics in Deontology	353; title: 1.	Founding ethics	353; title: 2.	Ethics concerns the living, thinking, willing	360; title: 3.	Conscience and conformism	365; title: 4.	Tai Chi, karma yoga and faith	369; title: 18.	More Topics in Deontology	375; title: 1.	Inducing ethics	375; title: 2.	Ethical formulas	381; title: 3.	Philosophy of law	388; title: 19.	Appendixes	394; title: 1.	Some formal logic guidelines	394; title: 2.	Aristotle’s four causes	400; title: References,   405; title: Figures; title: 1.	Mapping the process of volition,   144; title: 2.	How momentary subjects and objects give rise to abstractions,   330