A Metaphysics and Science of our Agency (Hardcover)

Jason D. Runyan

ISBN 10: 1009581783 / ISBN 13: 9781009581783

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2026

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Hardcover. In our scientific era, there has been widespread talk about the demise of conventional notions about our agency. In this book, Jason Runyan examines our conventional thought and talk about our agency and the basis for thinking that it is inconsistent with scientific findings. Using clear language and concrete examples, he brings philosophy and science to bear on fundamental questions: What is true about us? Do we accomplish what we think we do in everyday life? And should our scientific discoveries upend the way we think about our agency? In the process, Runyan shows how analytic and empirical approaches should inform one another how, together, they enable a more precise and expansive view, save us from the pitfalls of overreaching, and yield insights to live by. By using clear language and concrete examples, this book is an integrative work of philosophy and science which offers new insight into a topic of central importance to metaphysics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of science and action, as well as to psychology, neuropsychology, and neuroscience: our agency. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Metaphysics and Science of our Agency (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009581783
• ISBN 13: 9781009581783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In our scientific era, there has been widespread talk about the demise of conventional notions about our agency. In this book, Jason Runyan examines our conventional thought and talk about our agency and the basis for thinking that it is inconsistent with scientific findings. Using clear language and concrete examples, he brings philosophy and science to bear on fundamental questions: What is true about us? Do we accomplish what we think we do in everyday life? And should our scientific discoveries upend the way we think about our agency? In the process, Runyan shows how analytic and empirical approaches should inform one another – how, together, they enable a more precise and expansive view, save us from the pitfalls of overreaching, and yield insights to live by.

About the Author

Jason D. Runyan is Professor of Neuropsychology at Indiana Wesleyan University. His cross-disciplinary work has led to discoveries about memory, the development of smartphone-based experience sampling for collecting psychological data in daily life, evidence of virtue expression, and contributions to philosophical psychology.