New essays on the explanation of action
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New essays on the explanation of action
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"Transferred to digital printing 2010" -- T.p. verso, softcover
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Description
These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues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.
Table of Contents
- 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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