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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782868003321

Autore

Davidson Donald <1917-2003.>

Titolo

Essays on actions and events [[electronic resource] /] / Donald Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-19-171519-0

1-281-94416-5

9786611944162

0-19-152982-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Disciplina

128/.4

Soggetti

Act (Philosophy)

Events (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-319) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""Intention and Action""; ""Essay 1. Actions, Reasons, and Causes (1963)""; ""Essay 2. How is Weakness of the Will Possible? (1969)""; ""Essay 3. Agency (1971)""; ""Essay 4. Freedom to Act (1973)""; ""Essay 5. Intending (1978)""; ""Event and Cause""; ""Essay 6. The Logical Form of Action Sentences (1967)""; ""Criticism, Comment, and Defence""; ""Essay 7. Causal Relations (1967)""; ""Essay 8. The Individuation of Events (1969)""; ""Essay 9. Events as Particulars (1970)""

""Essay 10. Eternal vs. Ephemeral Events (1971)""""Philosophy of Psychology""; ""Essay 11. Mental Events (1970)""; ""Appendix: Emeroses by Other Names (1966)""; ""Essay 12. Psychology as Philosophy (1974)""; ""Comments and Replies""; ""Essay 13. The Material Mind (1973)""; ""Essay 14. Hempel on Explaining Action (1976)""; ""Essay 15. Hume's Cognitive Theory of Pride (1976)""; ""Appendices""; ""A. Adverbs of Action (1985)""; ""B. Reply to Quine on Events (1985)""; ""Bibliographical References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""



""M""""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Sommario/riassunto

Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays.