A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (eBook)

Timothy O'Connor, Constantine Sandis (Herausgeber)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781118394243 (ISBN)

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Timothy O'Connor is Professor and Department Chair of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, and a member of its Cognitive Sciences program. He has published extensively in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, and philosophy of religion. His books include Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will (ed. 1995), Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will (2000), Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings (ed. 2003), Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency (2008) and Downward Causation and the Necessity of Free Will (ed. 2010).

Constantine Sandis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and New York University in London. He is the editor of New Essays on the Explanation of Action (2009) and Hegel on Action (with Arto Laitinen, 2010), and author of The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (2010).

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Action offers a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems central to the philosophy of action. The first volume to survey the entire field of philosophy of action (the central issues and processes relating to human actions) Brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts Discusses a range of ideas and doctrines, including rationality, free will and determinism, virtuous action, criminal responsibility, Attribution Theory, and rational agency in evolutionary perspective Individual chapters also cover prominent historic figures from Plato to Ricoeur Can be approached as a complete narrative, but also serves as a work of reference Offers rich insights into an area of philosophical thought that has attracted thinkers since the time of the ancient Greeks

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"I recommend this volume to all those with any interest in
the concepts treated in the philosophy of action."
(Philosophy in Review, 1 December 2012)

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Notes on Contributors

Kieran Allen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology in University College Dublin. He has lectured extensively on Weber and has written Max Weber: A Critical Introduction (London: Pluto Press, 2004). His latest book was on Ireland’s Economic Crash (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2009).

Maria Alvarez is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton, UK. She has published widely on actions, reasons, and their relation. Her book, Kinds of Reasons: An Essay in the Philosophy of Action, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010.

Kent Bach, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, was educated at Harvard College and University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively in philosophy of language, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of mind. His books include Thought and Reference (Oxford University Press, 1987; expanded edition 1994) and, with Robert M. Harnish, Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts (MIT Press, 1979).

Annette Baier is currently Associate in Philosophy at the University of Otago, from which she first graduated. She has published on Hume, ethics, and philosophy of mind. Her most recent book is Death and Character: Further Reflections on Hume. She has books forthcoming on Hume on Justice (Harvard University Press) and on How We Live (Oxford University Press).

Marc Bekoff is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His latest books are Animals at Play: Rules of the Game (a kid’s book) and Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals (written with Jessica Pierce). Marc’s homepage is http://literati.net/Bekoff.

Stephen Boulter is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. Prior to taking up his current post he was Gifford Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1998–1999. He is the author of The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and is currently working on a book on medieval philosophy.

John Broome is White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Microeconomics of Capitalism (1983), Weighing Goods (1991), Counting the Cost of Global Warming (1992), Ethics Out of Economics (1999) and Weighing Lives (2004).

Randolph Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of Libertarian Accounts of Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2003) and many articles on agency, free will, and moral responsibility.

Ursula Coope is Tutorial Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Oxford University. She is the author of Time for Aristotle (Oxford University Press, 2005) and of papers on Aristotle’s Physics and his philosophy of action. She is currently writing about the development of the concept of the will in ancient philosophy.

Wayne A. Davis is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. His publications focus on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, and include Implicature (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Meaning, Expression and Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and Nondescriptive Meaning and Expression (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Sabine Döring is Professor of Philosophy at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. Her publications include ‘Explaining action by emotion,’ Philosophical Quarterly, 53 (2003), ‘Seeing what to do: Affective perception and rational motivation,’ Dialectica 61 (2007), and ‘Why be emotional?’ in Peter Goldie (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Emotion (Oxford University Press, 2009). She is also (together with Rainer Reisenzein) editor of Perspectives on Emotional Experience, a special issue of Emotion Review: Journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion, 1(3) (2009).

Fred Dretske is Senior Research Scholar at Duke University and Professor Emeritus at Stanford and at the University of Wisconsin. His publications include Seeing and Knowing (1969), Knowledge and the Flow of Information (1981), Explaining Behavior (1988), and Naturalizing the Mind (1995).

R. A. Duff has taught philosophy at the University of Stirling since 1970. He works on the philosophy of criminal law, especially on penal theory and on the principles and structures of criminal liability. He has published Trials and Punishments (1986); Intention, Agency and Criminal Responsibility (1990); Criminal Attempts (1996); Punishment, Communication and Community (2001); and Answering for Crime (2007).

Naomi Eilan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and director of the interdisciplinary Consciousness and Self-Consciousness Research Centre. She has published papers in the philosophy of mind and has edited several interdisciplinary volumes, including Agency and Self Awareness with Johannes Roessler (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Laura W. Ekstrom holds an AB in Philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD from the University of Arizona. She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, Williamson, VA. She is the author of Free Will: A Philosophical Study (Westview Press, 1999), and editor of Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom (Westview Press, 2000). She has published articles in metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of religion.

Stephen Everson has taught at the Universities of Oxford; Cambridge; and Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York. Everson has published on various topics in ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of action, and he is the author of Aristotle on Perception (Oxford University Press, 1999).

John Martin Fischer got his BA and MA in philosophy at Stanford University in 1975 and his PhD from Cornell in 1982. He has taught at Yale University, visited at UCLA and Santa Clara Unversity, and is currently Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, where he holds a UC President’s Chair. His books include The Metaphysics of Free Will (Blackwell, 1994), Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (co-authored with Mark Ravizza, Cambridge University Press, 1998); My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press,2006) Four Views on Free Will (co-authored with Pereboom, Kane, and Vargas, Blackwell, 2007); and Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Elisa Freschi works in the fields of linguistics, epistemology, and deontic logic, both western and Indian. After a laurea degree (BA and MA) in Sanskrit and a BA in western philosophy, she completed her PhD dissertation on Indian philosophy at Università Sapienza in Rome, Italy, where she is currently Research Fellow.

Margaret Gilbert is Melden Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Her books include On Social Facts (1989), Living Together (1996), Sociality and Responsibility (2000), Marcher Ensemble (2003), and A Theory of Political Obligation (2006).

Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zürich and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading. His publications include: as author, A Wittgenstein Dictionary (Blackwell, 1996) and Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality (Cambridge University Press, 2003); as editor, Strawson and Kant (Oxford University Press, 2003), What is Analytic Philosophy? (Cambridge University Press, 2008), La Mente de los Animales: Problemas Conceptuales (KRK Ediciones, 2009), and (edited with John Hyman) Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Mitchell Green is Horace W. Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia. He is author of Self-Expression (Oxford University Press, 2007) and co-editor of Moore’s Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality and the First Person (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Adrian Haddock is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He has published essays on action, knowledge, and idealism. He is, with Alan Millar and Duncan Pritchard, one of the authors of The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Edward Harcourt is University Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University and a Fellow of Keble College. His papers, on subjects which include metaethics, moral psychology and Wittgenstein, have appeared in various leading journals.

John Heil is Honorary Research Associate at Monash University and Professor of Philosophy at...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Schlagworte: action theory • Agency • Causation • Control • Free Will • Geistesphilosophie • Metaphysics • Metaphysik • moral responsibility • Motivation • Philosophie • Philosophy • Philosophy of mind
• ISBN-13: 9781118394243 / 9781118394243