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Action and Existence: A Case For Agent Causation
James Swindal
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Description for Action and Existence: A Case For Agent Causation
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPL; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230296671
SKU
V9780230296671
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About James Swindal
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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