A companion to the philosophy of action /
"An essential guidebook not just for philosophers of action but for anyone whose work engages conceptual or empirical questions about human action. This comprehensive volume boasts a long list of first-class contributors - O'Connor and Sandis deserve hearty thanks and congratulations for t...
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Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Acts and actions
- Action theory and ontology / E.J. Lowe
- Basic actions and individuation / Constantine Sandis
- Trying to act / Jennifer Hornsby
- Bodily movements / Adrian Haddock
- The causal theory of action / Wayne A. Davis
- Adverbs of action and logical form / Kirk Ludwig
- Refraining, omitting, and negative acts / Kent Bach
- Speech acts / Mitchell S. Green
- Collective action / Margaret Gilbert
- Habitual actions / Bill Pollard
- Cambridge actions / David-Hillel Ruben
- Pluralism about action / Elijah Millgram.
- Part II: Agency and causation
- Volition and the will / Laura W. Ekstrom
- intention / Alfred R. Mele
- Desire and pleasure / Timothy Schroeder
- Teleological explanation / Scott Sehon
- Reasons and causes / Timothy O'Connor
- Triggering and structuring causes / Fred Dretske
- Motivating reasons / Stephen Everson
- Humeanism about motivation / Michael Smith
- Deviant causal chains / Rowland Stout
- Action explanation and the unconscious / Edward Harcourt
- Mental causation and epiphenomenalism / John Heil
- The explanatory role of consciousness / Naomi Eilan
- What a difference emotions make / Sabine A. Doring
- Agency, patiency, and personhood / Soran Reader
- Mental acts / Joelle Proust
- Agent Causation / Randolph Clarke
- Bodily awareness and bodily action / Hong Yu Wong
- Agents' knowledge / Johannes Roessler
- Practical reasoning / Bart Streumer
- Deliberation and decision / Philip Pettit
- Motivational strength / Alfred R. Mele
- Addiction and compulsion / Neil Levy
- Akrasia and irrationality / Sergio Tenenbaum.
- Part III: Action in special contexts
- Rationality / John Broome
- Motivational internalism and externalism / G.F. Schueler
- Free will and determinism / Thomas Pink
- Responsibility and autonomy / John Martin Fischer
- Virtuous action / Rosalind Hursthouse
- The doctrine of double effect / David S. Oderberg
- Action and criminal responsibility / r. A. Duff
- Intention in law / Gideon Yaffe
- Scientific challenges to free will / Eddy Nahmias
- Intentional action in folk psychology / Bertram F. Malle
- Attribution theory / Bernard Weiner
- Rational agency in evolutionary perspective / Kim Sterelny and Ben Jeffares
- Animal agency / Hans-Johann glock
- Action in cognitive ethology / Marc Bekoff
- Action in history and social science / Daniel Little
- The prediction of action / Nassim N. Taleb and Avital Pilpel.
- Part IV: Prominent figures
- Indian philosophers / Elisa Freschi
- Plato / Christine J. Thomas
- Aristotle / Ursula Coope
- Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotelians / t. H. Irwin
- Augustine and Aquinas / Stephen Boulter
- Duns Scotus / Thomas Williams
- Thomas Hobbes / Thomas Pink
- Descartes / Paul Hoffman
- Locke / Matthew stuart
- Berkeley / Tom Stoneham
- Thomas Reid / Maria Alvarez
- Hume / Annette C. Baier
- Kant / Eric Watkins
- Nietzsche / Brian Leiter
- Hegel / Michael Quante
- Weber / Kieran Allen
- Wittgenstein / Severin Schroeder
- Ryle / Julia Tanney
- Sartre / Katherine J. Morris
- Chisholm / Michael J. Zimmerman
- Von Wright / Frederick Stoutland
- Davidson / Ralf Stoecker
- Anscombe / Roger Teichmann
- Ricoeur / Anna C. Zielinska.