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Zusatztext A classic in its field. Informationen zum Autor Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This investigation of the nature of human action argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Among the topics discussed are: freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions! intentions! and causality; and decision theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgments Introduction Intention and Action 2: How is Weakness of the Will Possible? (1969) 3: Agency (1971) 4: Freedom to Act (1973) 5: Intending (1978) Event and Cause Criticism, Comment, and Defence 7: Causal Relations (1967) 8: The Individuation of Events (1969) 9: Events as Particulars (1970) 10: Eternal vs. Ephemeral Events (1971) Philosophy of Psychology Appendix: Emeroses by Other Names (1966) 12: Psychology as Philosophy (1974) Comments and Replies 13: The Material Mind (1973) 14: Hempel on Explaining Action (1976) 15: Hume's Cognitive Theory of Pride (1976) Appendix A: Adverbs of Action (1985) Appendix B: Reply to Quine on Events (1985) Index, Bibliography ...
