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Essays on actions and events / Donald Davidson.
LIBRA Special B105.A35 D37 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Act (Philosophy).
- Events (Philosophy).
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 324 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199246270
- OCLC:
- 47063301
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