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Manifest activity : Thomas Reid's theory of action / Gideon Yaffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yaffe, Gideon, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
- Reid, Thomas.
- Action theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 167 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Thomas Reid's theory of action
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Manifest Activity' presents and critically examines Thomas Reid's doctrines about the model of human power, the will, our capacities for purposeful conduct and the place of our agency in the world.
- Contents:
- Introduction: teleology and the science of action
- From power to mind: an argument from the power to exert
- From power to mind: an argument from the power to do otherwise
- From change to power
- From end-directedness to power
- The influence of motives: the push of power
- The influence of motives: the push of law
- Agent causation and the regress of effort.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-162) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160141-1
- 1-281-19085-3
- 0-19-153331-9
- 9786611190859
- 1-4356-2189-1
- OCLC:
- 922953305
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