Action and Existence
A Case For Agent Causation
Seiten
2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-29667-1 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-29667-1 (ISBN)
Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained.
JAMES SWINDAL is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, USA. He is author of Reflection Revisited: Jürgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth and has published on topics in critical theory, neo-pragmatism, ethics, and Catholic philosophy.
Introduction: Action, Thought, Pragmatism Neo-Pragmatism and its Critics Methodology: Reconstructive Dialectics A History of Action Theory Defining Actions The Explanation of Action A Material Explication of Agency Agency and Existence Bibliography Endnotes
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.11.2011 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | IX, 206 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-230-29667-X / 023029667X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-29667-1 / 9780230296671 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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