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Phénoménologie de l'action non déterminée

Libro: Phénoménologie de l'action. Perspectives contemporaines sur l'agentivité et le sujet
Editorial: Brill
Fecha de publicación: 2023
Página Inicial - Final: 172 - 185
ISBN: 9789004518544
Resumen: In the Free Will controversy, Libertarians traditionally claim that we experience our actions as having no cause besides ourselves, or more precisely no determining event-cause. But other philosophers, like Spinoza, have doubted that we had such an experience, or even that we could have such an experience; all we have (or can have), according to Spinozists, is an absence of experience of the determining cause, not an experience of an absence of a determining cause. In this paper, I argue that we can and do have a phenomenology of the absence of determining cause. First, I rebut the traditional Spinozist arguments to the effect that such an experience is impossible. Second, I provide a positive model, according to which this experience is not only possible, but is an actual experience, derivative upon two more fundamental experiences that we quite uncontroversially have. In the third section, I respond to some objections.