Essays on Actions and Events

Name: Essays on Actions and Events
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ISBN: 9780199246274

ISBN-10: 0199246270

ISBN-13: 9780199246274

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Donald Davidson

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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.

Book details

List price: $53.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



essays On Actions And Events


Essays on Actions and Events


Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements


Preface to the Second Edition


Introduction


Intention and Action



Actions, Reasons, and Causes



How is Weakness of the Will Possible?



Agency



Freedom to Act



Intending


Event and Cause



The Logical Form of Action Sentences



Causal Relations



The Individuation of Events



Events as Particulars



Eternal Vs. Ephemeral Events


Philosophy of Psychology



Mental Events



Psychology as Philosophy



The Material Mind



Hempel on Explaining Action



Hume's Cognitive Theory of Pride


Appendices


Bibliographical References


Index