Action and Existence A Case for Agent Causation

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 act...

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Main Author: Swindal, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2012, 2012
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:IX, 206 p online resource
ISBN:9780230355460