Our self-understanding as human agents includes a commitment to three crucial claims about human agency: that agents must be active, that actions are part of th

How can we be active agents when processes in the world are explicable by the laws of natural science? Erasmus Mayr explores this deep-running tension in our se

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universiteat, 2007.

In this penetrating and assured book, one of the leading commentators in the field argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections