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Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays Volume 1
Donald Davidson
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Description for Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays Volume 1
Paperback. Discusses topics such 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. This book argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Series: The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson. Num Pages: 352 pages, appendices. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199246274
SKU
V9780199246274
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About Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in ... Read more
Reviews for Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays Volume 1
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
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Peter Strawson, Times Literary Supplement
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