Essays on Actions and Events
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.
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Essays on Actions and Events
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.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199246267 |
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| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date: | 11/22/2001 |
| Series: | The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes) |
| Edition description: | REV |
| Pages: | 346 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d) |
| Lexile: | 1370L (what's this?) |
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