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Essays on actions and events / Donald Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Act (Philosophy).
- Events (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 324 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays.
- Contents:
- Actions, reasons, and causes
- How is weakness of the will possible?
- Agency
- Freedom to act
- Intending
- The logical form of action sentences; criticism, comment, and defence
- Causal relations
- The individuation of events
- Events as particulars
- Eternal vs. ephemeral events
- Mental events; appendix: emeroses by other names
- Psychology as philosophy
- The material mind
- Hempel on explaining action
- Hume's cognitive theory of pride.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-171519-0
- 1-281-94416-5
- 9786611944162
- 0-19-152982-6
- OCLC:
- 922953631
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