Essays on actions and events

Essays on actions and events

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author : Davidson Donald (Auteur)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : Essays on actions and events / Donald Davidson
Published : Oxford, London, Glasgow [etc.] : Clarendon press , 1982
Physical Description : 1 vol. (XVI-304 p.)
Subjects :
Philosophie de l'action
  • Actions, reasons, and causes
  • How is weakness of the will possible?
  • Agency
  • Freedom to act
  • Intending
  • The logical form of action sentences; criticism, comment, and defence
  • Causal relations
  • The individuation of events
  • Events as particulars
  • Eternal vs. ephemeral events
  • Mental events; appendix: emeroses by other names
  • Psychology as philosophy; comments and replies
  • The material mind
  • Hempel on explaining action
  • Hume's cognitive theory of pride