Title: Action and its explanation /
Authors: Ruben, David-Hillel.
Publisher: Clarendon Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Act (Philosophy); Psychology Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of.
Abstract: This volume pursues some novel and unusual standpoints in the philosophy of action. It rejects, for example, the most widely held view about how to count actions, and argues for what the author calls a 'prolific theory' of act individuation.
Contents: 1. The Cambridge Theory of Action -- 2. Some Preliminaries -- 3. Theories of Action and an Introduction to the Causal Theory of Action -- 4. The Causal Theory of Action -- 5. More Theories -- 6. A Counterfactual Theory of Causal Explanation -- Appendix on the Epistemology of Action: Certainty and Basic Physical Action.