Causing Actions

Informationen zum Autor Paul M. Pietroski is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Maryland. He was previously Associate Professor at McGill University. Klappentext Paul Pietroski presents an original philosophical theory of actions and their mental causes. We often act for reasons! deliberating and choosing among options! based on our beliefs and desires. But because bodily motions always have biochemical causes! it can seem that thinking and acting are biochemical processes. Pietroski argues that thoughts and deeds are in fact distinct from! though dependent on! underlying biochemical processes within persons. Zusammenfassung Presents a philosophical theory of actions and their mental causes. This work also argues that thoughts and deeds are in fact distinct from, though dependent on, underlying biochemical processes within persons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Actions as Inner Causes 2: Fregean Innocence 3: From Explanation to Causation 4: Other Things Being Equal 5: Personal Dualism 6: Modal Concerns 7: Natural Causes Appendix: The Semantic Wages of Neuralism References, Index

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• Authors: P. M. Pietroski, Paul M. Pietroski, Paul M. (University of Maryland) Pietroski, Pietroski Paul M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2002
• EAN: 9780199252763
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925276-3
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Psychological theory & schools of thought