Action and Existence - A Case for Agent Causation

Informationen zum Autor JAMES SWINDAL is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, USA. He is author of Reflection Revisited: Jürgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth and has published on topics in critical theory, neo-pragmatism, ethics, and Catholic philosophy. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Bibliography Endnotes

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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 Bibliography Endnotes

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• Authors: J Swindal, J. Swindal, James Swindal, Swindal James
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2011
• EAN: 9780230296671
• ISBN: 978-0-230-29667-1
• No. of pages: 215
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Philosophy of Language, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, History of Philosophy, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Language and languages—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy: logic, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Philosophy of the Self, Existentialism