Action and Existence [electronic resource] : A Case For Agent Causation /
Swindal, J.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Philosophy of mind.
Logic.
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Existentialism.
Philosophy of Mind.
Logic.
Philosophy of Language.
History of Philosophy.
Existentialism.