1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002239860203316

Autore

LESER, Hermann

Titolo

Vol. 2 : Da Montaigne ai pietisti / Ermanno Leser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : La nuova Italia, 1965

Descrizione fisica

322 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Educatori antichi e moderni ; 37

Disciplina

370.1

Soggetti

Pedagogia - Storia - Sec. 15.-16

Collocazione

Coll BW 36

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815412103321

Autore

Stout Rowland

Titolo

Action [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2014

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

9786612921551

9781602683973

1-282-92155-X

1-902683-98-6

1-315-71047-1

1-84465-354-4

1-317-48905-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Collana

Central Problems of Philosophy

Disciplina

128/.4

Soggetti

Act (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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: inward-looking and outward-looking approaches to agency; 2 Acting for a reason; 3 Reasons and passions; 4 Agent causation; 5 Mental causation; 6 Deviant causal chains and causal processes; 7 Acting with an intention; 8 Prior intention; 9 The metaphysics of action; Conclusion; Notes; Suggestions for further reading; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The traditional focus of debate in philosophy of action has been the causal theory of action and metaphysical questions about the nature of actions as events. In this lucid and lively introduction to philosophy of action, Rowland Stout shows how these issues are subsidiary to more central ones that concern the freedom of the will, practical rationality and moral psychology. When seen in these terms, agency becomes one of the most exciting areas in philosophy and one of the most useful ways into the philosophy of mind. If one can understand what it is to be a free and rational agent, then one i