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- Book Title
- Essays on Actions and Events (Philosophical Essays of Donald D...
- ISBN
- 0199246270
- EAN
- 9780199246274
- Release Title
- Essays on Actions and Events (Philosophical Essays of Donald D...
- Artist
- Davidson, Donald
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199246270
ISBN-13
9780199246274
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59156
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Essays on Actions and events
Publication Year
2001
Subject
Mind & Body, General
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Series
The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes) Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-278425
Reviews
'Review from previous edition 'it must be said that this is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear for a good many years.''Peter Strawson, Times Literary Supplement, Review from other book by this author '...these intriguing views are ingeniously argued and fruitfully provocative.'Philosophy., Review from other book by this author '...these intriguing views are ingeniously argued and fruitfully provocative.'Philosophy.'Review from previous edition 'it must be said that this is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear for a good many years.''Peter Strawson, Times Literary Supplement'Review from previous edition 'it must be said that this is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear for a good many years... The positions adopted are argued for with an extraordinarily sustained seriousness and determination... the work will become, and deserves to become, a classic in its field.''Peter Strawson, Times Literary Supplement
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Volume Number
Vol. 1
Dewey Decimal
128/.4
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
Provenance of the Essays and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionIntention and Action 1. Actions, Reasons, and Causes (1963)2. How is Weakness of the Will Possible? (1969)3. Agency (1971)4. Freedom to Act (1973)5. Intending (1978)Event and Cause 6. The Logical Form of Action Sentences (1967)Criticism, Comment, and Defence7. Causal Relations (1967)8. The Individuation of Events (1969)9. Events as Particulars (1970)10. Eternal vs. Ephemeral Events (1971)Philosophy of Psychology 11. Mental Events (1970)Appendix: Emeroses by Other Names (1966)12. Psychology as Philosophy (1974)Comments and Replies13. The Material Mind (1973)14. Hempel on Explaining Action (1976)15. Hume's Cognitive Theory of Pride (1976)Appendix A: Adverbs of Action (1985)Appendix B: Reply to Quine on Events (1985)Index, Bibliography
Synopsis
Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. This seminal work on the nature of human action features influential discussions of such topics as freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory.'a classic in its field.' P. F. Strawson, Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory., Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. In this seminal investigation of the nature of human action, Davidson argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Certain events are identified and explained as actions when they are viewed as caused and rationalized by reasons; these same events, when described in physical, biological, or physiological terms, may be explained by appeal to natural laws. The mental and the physical thus constitute irreducibly discrete ways of explaining and understanding events and their causal relations.Among the topics discussed are: freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory. The introduction, cross-references, and appendices emphasize the relations between the essays and explain how Davidson's views have developed.
LC Classification Number
B105
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