Actions and Agents: Natural and Supernatural Reconsidered: with Mikael Leidenhag, “The Relevance of Emergence Theory in the Science–Religion Dialogue”; Steven L. Peck, “Life as Emergent Agential Systems: Tendencies without Teleology in an Open Universe”; and Joseph A. Bracken, “Actions and Agents: Natural and Supernatural Reconsidered.”

Using a process-oriented understanding of the relation between actions and agents, the author argues that an ontological agent is the ongoing effect or by-product rather than the antecedent cause of actions. Applied to the relation between natural and supernatural in philosophical cosmology, this al...

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Main Author: Bracken, Joseph A. 1930- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2013
In: Zygon
Year: 2013, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, Pages: 1001-1013
Further subjects:B Paul Ricoeur
B nonempirical causes
B LeRon Shults
B Jerome Stone
B Celia Deane-Drummond
B empirical effects
B Henri Bergson
B Alfred North Whitehead
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