New Essays on the Explanation of Action - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0230522025 ISBN 13: 9780230522022

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Riassunto

These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.

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Recensione

'This is the most interesting collection of new articles in the philosophy of action for several years, and a clear signal that the orthodoxies of the last forty years are at last giving way to more plausible and fruitful philosophical ideas.'

- John Hyman, University of Oxford, UK

'Constantine Sandis has done a remarkable job of collecting some of the best essays on explanation of action Sandis' anthology is a wonderfully informative collection of essays on action explanation.' Joseph Ulatowski, University of Nevada, Metapsychology

'The discussions in this collection helpfully locate central issues that are up for re-thinking in the re-assessment of contemporary philosophy of action.' Robert Dunn, University of Sidney, Analysis

Descrizione del libro

A solid cast of contributors present the first collection of essays on the Philosophy of Action

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0230522025
• ISBN 13: 9780230522022
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 429
• Redattore: Sandis Constantine