Manifest activity : Thomas Reid's theory of action / Gideon Yaffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaffe, Gideon, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.

Reid, Thomas.

Action theory.

Physical Description:

viii, 167 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Manifest Activity presents and critically examines the model of human power, the will, our capacities for purposeful conduct, and the place of our agency in the natural world of one of the most important and traditionally under-appreciated philosophers of the 18th century: Thomas Reid. The book examines Reid's arguments for this view and the view's implications for the nature of character, motivation and the special kind of causation involved in the production of human behavior.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index.

ISBN:

019926855X

OCLC:

55015283