New essays on the explanation of action

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New essays on the explanation of action

edited by Constantine Sandis

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"Transferred to digital printing 2010" -- T.p. verso, softcover

内容説明・目次

内容説明

These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues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.

目次

  • Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: REASONS AND CAUSES What Must Actions be for Reasons to Explain Them?
  • F.Dretske What Kind of Things are Reasons for Action?
  • S.Everson Was Sally's Reason for Running From the Bear that She Thought it was Chasing Her?
  • R.Stout Con-reasons as Causes
  • D.H. Ruben Agential Reasons and the Explanation of Human Behaviour
  • P.M.S.Hacker Reasons as Non-causal, Context-placing Explanations
  • J.Tanney Interpretive Explanations
  • G.F.Schueler Anscombe on the Expression of Intention: An Exegesis
  • R.Moran & M.J.Stone Can One Act for a Reason Without Acting Intentionally?
  • J.Knobe & S.D.Kelly Reasons: Explanatory and Normative
  • J.Raz Reasons, Desires and Intentional Actions
  • M.Alvarez A Niggle at Nagel: Causally Active Desires and the Explanation of Action
  • C.Pigden Acting in Character
  • A.Baier Aquinas on the Explanation of Action
  • S.Boulter Acting for Reasons - A Grass Root Approach
  • R.Stoecker PART II: AGENCY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY Sub-Intentional Actions and the Over-Mentalization of Agency
  • H.Steward Determinism, Intentional Action, and Bodily Movements
  • F.Stoutland Free Agency, Causation, and Action Explanation
  • E.J.Lowe Gods and Mental States: The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind
  • C.Sandis Aristotle's Conception of Practical Thinking
  • A.W.Price Action in Moral Metaphysics
  • J.Dancy Non-cognitivism and Motivation
  • N.Zangwill Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA88317526
  • ISBN
    • 9780230522022
    • 9781349356683
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Basingstoke
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiii, 429 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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