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Action and Existence

A Case For Agent Causation
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
206 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am01.01.20121st ed. 2012
Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained.mehr
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KlappentextSince the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-349-33382-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2012
Erscheinungsdatum01.01.2012
Auflage1st ed. 2012
Seiten206 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht284 g
IllustrationenIX, 206 p.
Artikel-Nr.38259387

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Action, Thought, Pragmatism Neo-Pragmatism and its Critics Methodology: Reconstructive Dialectics A History of Action Theory Defining Actions The Explanation of Action A Material Explication of Agency Agency and Existence Bibliography Endnotesmehr

Autor

JAMES SWINDAL is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, USA. He is author of Reflection Revisited: Jürgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth and has published on topics in critical theory, neo-pragmatism, ethics, and Catholic philosophy.
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