Essays On Freedom Of Action

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317516133
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals) written by Ted Honderich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Freedom of Action, first published in 1973, brings together original papers by contemporary British and American philosophers on questions which have long concerned philosophers and others: the question of whether persons are wholly a part of the natural world and their actions the necessary effects of causal processes, and the question of whether our actions are free, and such that we can be held responsible for them, even if they are the necessary effects of casual processes. This volume will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy but also to students in those many other disciplines in which freedom and determinism arise as problems.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Freedom of Action written by Ted Honderich and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Routledge/Thoemms Press
ISBN 13 : 9780710088833
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Freedom of Action written by Ted Honderich and published by Routledge/Thoemms Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Neville Figgis
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781344768450
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Freedom and Other Essays written by John Neville Figgis and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : C. Sandis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582974
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays on the Explanation of Action written by C. Sandis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.

Author : Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520340981
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Aristotle's Ethics written by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics deals with character and its proper development in the acquisition of thoughtful habits directed toward appropriate ends. The articles in this unique collection, many new or not readily available, form a continuos commentary on the Ethics. Philosophers and classicists alike will welcome them.

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191529826
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Actions and Events written by Donald Davidson and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. This seminal work on the nature of human action features influential discussions of such topics as 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.'a classic in its field.' P. F. Strawson -;Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. In this seminal investigation of the nature of human action, Davidson argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Certain events are identified and explained as actions when they are viewed as caused and rationalized by reasons; these same events, when described in physical, biological, orphysiological terms, may be explained by appeal to natural laws. The mental and the physical thus constitute irreducibly discrete ways of explaining and understanding events and their causal relations.Among the topics discussed are: 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. The introduction, cross-references, and appendices emphasize the relations between the essays and explain how Davidson's views have developed.

Author : Constantine Sandis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135023513X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Action to Ethics written by Constantine Sandis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought. In this collection of his best essays in the philosophy of action, Sandis brings together updated versions of his writings, accompanied by a new introduction. Read collectively they demonstrate the breadth of his interests and ability to relate to broader issues within the culture, connecting debates in philosophical psychology about motivation, negligence, and moral responsibility with Greek tragedy, social psychology and literature. Along this path from action to ethics, Sandis engages with Hegel, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Ricoeur, Davidson, and Dretske, together with contemporary authors such as Jennifer Hornsby and Jonathan Dancy. As he responds to each thinker and theme, he develops his own philosophical position, the key thesis of which is that philosophy of action without ethics is empty, ethics without philosophy of action is blind.

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199246262
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Actions and Events written by Donald Davidson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays.

Author : Ingmar Persson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198845030
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasons in Action written by Ingmar Persson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingmar Persson offers an original view of the processes of human action: deliberating on the basis of reasons for and against actions, making a decision about what to do, and from there implementing the decision in action in a way that makes the action intentional. Persson's analysis is mainly developed to suit physical actions, though how it needs to be modified to cover mental acts is also discussed. The interpretation of intentional action that is presented is reductionist in the sense that it does not appeal to any concepts that are distinctive of the domain of action theory, such as a unique type of agent-causation, or irreducible mental acts, like acts of will, volitions, decisions, or tryings. Nor does it appeal to any unanalyzed attitudes or states essentially related to intentional action, like intentions and desires to act. Instead, the intentionality of actions is construed as springing from desires conceived as physical states of agents which cause facts because of the way agents think of them. A sense of our having responsibility that is sufficient for our acting for reasons is also sketched out.