Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Passivity is the opposite of activity. And yet in order to do something intentionally, one must be passive in certain respects. In this essay, I identify three forms of passivity that are necessary conditions of intentional action, contrast these forms of passivity with a fourth form that is incompatible with intentional action, and explore the relationships among all four. In so doing, I call attention to the complex relationship between our capacity to will and our capacity to reason.
Source: Midwest Studies in Philosophy
DOI: 10.5840/msp202532556
Author: Sarah Buss
Institution: University of Michigan
Language: English
Topic: Free Will and Agency
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409825703