03254nam 22005535 450 991030063610332120200702171637.03-319-90347-010.1007/978-3-319-90347-7(CKB)4100000004974322(MiAaPQ)EBC5436565(DE-He213)978-3-319-90347-7(EXLCZ)99410000000497432220180625d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Metaphysics of Action[electronic resource] Trying, Doing, Causing /by David-Hillel Ruben1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (354 pages)3-319-90346-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index.1. Introduction -- 2. The Physical Action Theory of Trying -- 3. Trying in Some Way -- 4. A Conditional Theory of Trying -- 5. Causing and Doing -- 6. Doing and Causing -- 7. Causing in Some Way -- 8. Regress Issues and Action Scepticism. .In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one’s action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical act but can be explained using conditionals; that action is not the same as causing something to happen; and in the case of a special but important subset of actions, for example the opening of a window, the action is identical to the event of the window’s opening. A result of this last account is that it places actions out in the world, sometimes far removed in time and space from the actor’s body. The world is full of action; actions do not just exist in the many little islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the final chapter, Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge to the idea that we can ever know whether or not someone else has acted, rather than just passive events having happened to that person. .MetaphysicsEpistemologyPhilosophy of mindOntologyMetaphysicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E18000Epistemologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E13000Philosophy of Mindhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E31000Ontologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E22000Metaphysics.Epistemology.Philosophy of mind.Ontology.Metaphysics.Epistemology.Philosophy of Mind.Ontology.128.3709Ruben David-Hillelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut125075BOOK9910300636103321The Metaphysics of Action2099730UNINA