New Essays on the Explanation of Action
Constantine . Ed(S): Sandis
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Description for New Essays on the Explanation of Action
Hardback. These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons. Editor(s): Sandis, Constantine. Num Pages: 442 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 33. Weight in Grams: 666.
These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.
These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
442
Condition
New
Number of Pages
429
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230522022
SKU
V9780230522022
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About Constantine . Ed(S): Sandis
MARIA ALVAREZ is a philosophy lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK ANNETTE BAIER (retired) taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Auckland, Sydney, Carnegie-Mellon, and Pittsburgh, and held visiting appointments at Florida Gainesville, City University of New York, and Michigan, USA STEPHEN BOULTER is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, UK JONATHAN DANCY is Professor of ... Read more
Reviews for New Essays on the Explanation of Action
'This is the most interesting collection of new articles in the philosophy of action for several years, and a clear signal that the orthodoxies of the last forty years are at last giving way to more plausible and fruitful philosophical ideas.' - John Hyman, University of Oxford, UK 'Constantine Sandis has done a remarkable job ... Read more