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Dec 8, 2008 · Chisholm makes use of this undefined expression: ‘S makes B happen in the endeavor to make A happen’. Suppose, for example, that a man dials a certain telephone number intending thereby to make a certain phone ring in Los Angeles.
(1) He can resist the temptation to do something in order to make A happen; (z) He can resist the temptation to allow A to happen (i.e., to do nothing to prevent A from happening). We may suppose that the man has some desire to have A happen and thus has a motive for making A happen.
- Chisholm introduces the distinction between "doing" something and "making something happen" - It is true that the agent does not do anything with his brain, or to his brain, in the sense in which he doesn't something with his hand and does something to the staff. But from this it does not follow that the agent was not the immanent cause of ...
Chisholm’s epistemology is the standard bearer of foundationalism, first proposed by René Descartes. In its defense, Chisholm proposes a unique answer to explain why empirical knowledge rests on foundational certainties about one’s mental/phenomenal experiences, that is, sense-data propositions.
Chisholm replies that the same unanswerable question can be raised with respect to event causation; but it seems that there are answers to this question in the case of event (transeunt) causation which are not available in the case of agent causation.
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makes a certain neural event happen in the endeavor to make it happen that his arm rise. This example illustrates two features of Chisholm's agency locution. First, to say that S makes it happen that p in the endeavor to make it happen that q entails that S does make it happen that p; so p obtains.
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Chisholm is perhaps best known for his attempts to bring clarity and rigor to philosophical thought. Philosophical analysis for Chisholm involved very precise definitions of key concepts. Consequently, the humorous Philosophical Lexicon (see philosophicallexicon.com) has the following entry: “ [to] chisholm, v.
