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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961394203321

Autore

Davidson Donald <1917-2003>

Titolo

Essays on actions and events / / Donald Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-171519-0

1-281-94416-5

9786611944162

0-19-152982-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 324 pages)

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

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 -- The material mind -- Hempel on explaining action -- Hume's cognitive theory of pride.

Sommario/riassunto

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