Description
Book SynopsisDiscusses the main themes in the philosophy of action and the key contributions of analytical philosophers. The author also develops an original contribution and links these issues to debates in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of social science.
Trade Review'This is primarily a textbook. It could be used by good students in any subject wanting to learn what in the analytical philosophy of action might be of use to them.'
Political StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. Actions and Happenings.
2. The New Volitional Theory.
3. Some Remarks about the Ontology of Actions.
4. Meaningful Actions.
5. Agency and Intentional Action.
6. The Intentionality of Mind.
7. Intentionality and Science.
8. Laws and Explanation of Actions.
9. Laws and Prediction of Actions.
10. Davidson's Causal Theory of Intentional Action.
11. Wayward Causal Chains.
12. Intention and Intentional Action.
13. Davidson's Theory of Intention.
14. Agency and Physical Determinism.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Bibliography.
