Second Annual Mexican Philosophers' Conference
Jesús Aguilar Jesús Aguilar received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2003. He is interested in a broad spectrum of issues in the philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, Latin-American Philosophy, and metaphilosophy. Among these issues are the nature of agency, the problem of causal deviance, the control of basic actions, multiple realization, mental causation, the nature of thought experiments, and the role of imagination in philosophical thinking. His recent publications have explored some of these topics. |
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"Agential Systems and Basic Causal Deviance" Abstract: A plausible strategy to defend the Causal Theory of Action from deviant causal chains is grounded on the proposal that an intentional bodily movement must be sensitive to the content of the mental state that causes it. This strategy is directly challenged by causally deviant cases where bodily movements are produced through the intervention of a second agent. In this essay I criticise John Bishop’s influential answer to this challenge. In particular, I criticise Bishop’s alleged “Final Breakthrough” concerning the necessary and sufficient conditions for an intentional action which is a central part of his answer to causal deviance. |
email: mexphil@gmail.com