@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024},
author = {Nozick,Robert},
subject = {Actions},
note = {II 294
Action/causation/cause/Nozick: if an action is caused, then by a consideration.
>Reason/cause, >Reasons, >Motivation, >Motives, >Causes, >Causation.
The other way round: which considerations we provide with a causal status depends on how we acted.
Cf. >Cognitive Dissonance.
II 294
Free will/Nozick: difference:
a) action caused (by reasons, consideration), could have been different
b) causally determined (by intractable things) could not be more different.
Cf. >Determinism, >Freedom of will, >Will, cf. >Anomalous monism.
II 294
Decision/ethics/Nozick: is not a discovery of weighting, but attribution of relevance.
>Relevance.
Then the decision is not causally determined by the weights - but not every reason is always available to everyone - E.g. history of art: not every style was always available.
>Art, >Style, >Artworks, >History, >Historiography.
II 299
Action/self-subsumtion/Nozick: a decision may be self-subsuming: they can establish principles that govern not only the act but also the weighting itself.
>Principles.
This is not a repetition of the weighting - e.g. strategy: that the result is always the best - the decision to follow this strategy itself is an action that falls under the weighting that it attributes.
>Self-reference, >Description levels, >Levels/order.
II 300
The act of decision can also refer to itself.
II 300
Decision/fulfillment model/Herbert Simons: (instead of optimization model): you choose an action that is good enough - if you don’t find one, you continue to look and reduce your expectations - the opnion of what is good enough changes.
Optimization model: here the costs are also taken into account.
>Bounded Optimality/Simons, >self-reference.
a) looking among known alternatives
b) devising new alternatives.
II 304
Reflexive: a free decision is reflexive: it exists by virtue of the weights that are conferred on it by their own validity.
>Validity, cf. >Validity claims.
II 318f
Action/decision/free will/knowledge/belief/Nozick: actions and decisions may be seen like beliefs and facts (covariance, connection to facts).
>Covariance, >Facts.
>ccordingly, methods can be weighed as well.
II 321
Connection: consists in judgmental belief.
>Values, >Beliefs.},
note = { No I R. Nozick Philosophical Explanations Oxford 1981 No II R., Nozick The Nature of Rationality 1994
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