A companion to the philosophy of action / / edited by Timothy O'Connor and Constantine Sandis

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (709 p.)
• Disciplina: 128.4
• Soggetto topico: Act (Philosophy); Philosophy
• Altri autori: O'ConnorTimothy <1965-> SandisConstantine <1976->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Companion to the Philosophy of Action -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Acts and Actions -- 1: Action Theory and Ontology -- 2: Basic Actions and Individuation -- 3: Trying to Act -- 4: Bodily Movements -- 5: The Causal Theory of Action -- 6: Adverbs of Action and Logical Form -- 7: Refraining, Omitting, and Negative Acts -- 8: Speech Acts -- 9: Collective Action -- 10: Habitual Actions -- 11: Cambridge Actions -- 12: Pluralism about Action -- Part II: Agency and Causation -- 13: Volition and the Will -- 14: Intention -- 15: Desire and Pleasure -- 16: Teleological Explanation -- 17: Reasons and Causes -- 18: Triggering and Structuring Causes -- 19: Motivating Reasons -- 20: Humeanism about Motivation -- 21: Deviant Causal Chains -- 22: Action Explanation and the Unconscious -- 23: Mental Causation and Epiphenomenalism -- 24: The Explanatory Role of Consciousness -- 25: What a Difference Emotions Make -- 26: Agency, Patiency, and Personhood -- 27: Mental Acts -- 28: Agent Causation -- 29: Bodily Awareness and Bodily Action -- 30: Agents' Knowledge -- 31: Practical Reasoning -- 32: Deliberation and Decision -- 33: Motivational Strength -- 34: Addiction and Compulsion -- 35: Akrasia and Irrationality -- Part III: Action in Special Contexts -- 36: Rationality -- 37: Motivational Internalism and Externalism -- 38: Free Will and Determinism -- 39: Responsibility and Autonomy -- 40: Virtuous Action -- 41: The Doctrine of Double Effect -- 42: Action and Criminal Responsibility -- 43: Intention in Law -- 44: Scientific Challenges to Free Will -- 45: Intentional Action in Folk Psychology -- 46: Attribution Theory -- 47: Rational Agency in Evolutionary Perspective -- 48: Animal Agency -- 49: Action in Cognitive Ethology -- 50: Action in History and Social Science. ; 51: The Prediction of Action -- Part IV: Prominent Figures -- 52: Indian Philosophers -- 53: Plato -- 54: Aristotle -- 55: Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotelians -- 56: Augustine and Aquinas -- 57: Duns Scotus -- 58: Thomas Hobbes -- 59: Descartes -- 60: Locke -- 61: Berkeley -- 62: Thomas Reid -- 63: Hume -- 64: Kant -- 65: Nietzsche -- 66: Hegel -- 67: Weber -- 68: Wittgenstein -- 69: Ryle -- 70: Sartre -- 71: Chisholm -- 72: Von Wright -- 73: Davidson -- 74: Anscombe -- 75: Ricœur -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to the philosophy of action
• ISBN: 1-118-39424-0; 1-4443-9045-7; 1-78268-341-0; 1-282-49200-4; 9786612492006; 1-4443-3163-9; 1-4443-2352-0; 1-4443-2353-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910876593203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to philosophy.