Choice - The Essential Element in Human Action

List of contents

1. Rational Animals and their Actions 1.1. The Socratic Tradition in the Theory of Human Action 1.2. Should the Socratic Tradition Be Jettisoned as Folk Psychology? 1.3. Plan For An Investigation of Human Action on Socratic Lines 2. Actions as Individual Events 3. Oexis and Doxa 4. Propositional Attitudes: Frege’s Semantics Revised 5. Choosing and Doing 6. Intending 7. Rationalizing and Explaining 8. Will and Intellect 9. Agency 10. Freedom of Choice

About the author

Alan Donagan

Summary

This book, first published in 1987, investigates what distinguishes human behaviour that is action (praxis) from the part that is not. The distinction was drawn by Socrates, but key elements became obscured in modern philosophy.This study recovers those elements, and analyses them in terms of a defensible semantics on Fregean lines.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Donagan, Donagan Alan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138635135
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63513-5
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Free Will and Determinism; Routledge Library Editions: Free Will and Determinism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge