Essays on Actions and Events

Produktbeschreibung

Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Intention and Action
2: How is Weakness of the Will Possible? (1969)
3: Agency (1971)
4: Freedom to Act (1973)
5: Intending (1978)
Event and Cause
Criticism, Comment, and Defence
7: Causal Relations (1967)
8: The Individuation of Events (1969)
9: Events as Particulars (1970)
10: Eternal vs. Ephemeral Events (1971)
Philosophy of Psychology
Appendix: Emeroses by Other Names (1966)
12: Psychology as Philosophy (1974)
Comments and Replies
13: The Material Mind (1973)
14: Hempel on Explaining Action (1976)
15: Hume's Cognitive Theory of Pride (1976)
Appendix A: Adverbs of Action (1985)
Appendix B: Reply to Quine on Events (1985)
Index, Bibliography 

Autoreninfo

Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.