Essays On Actions And Events
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Essays On Actions And Events
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Author : Donald Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-09-27
Essays On Actions And Events written by Donald Davidson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-27 with Philosophy categories.
Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. In this seminal investigation of the nature of human action, Davidson argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Certain events are identified and explained as actions when they are viewed as caused and rationalized by reasons; these same events, when described in physical, biological, or physiological terms, may be explained by appeal to natural laws. The mental and the physical thus constitute irreducibly discrete ways of explaining and understanding events and their causal relations. Among the topics discussed are: freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory. The introduction, cross-references, and appendices emphasize the relations between the essays and explain how Davidson's views have developed.
Essays On Actions And Events
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Author : Donald Davidson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Essays On Actions And Events written by Donald Davidson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Acts categories.
Essays On Actions And Events
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Author : Donald Davidson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Essays On Actions And Events written by Donald Davidson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Act (Philosophy) categories.
Essays On Davidson
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Author : Bruce Vermazen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1985
Essays On Davidson written by Bruce Vermazen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection brings together previously unpublished works by well-known philosophers on the philosophy of action, the metaphysics of causality, and the philosophy of psychology. Nine of the essays directly discuss Donald Davidson's work on these topics, while three others challenge a Davidsonian approach through discussion of independent but related issues. These essays are followed by replies from Davidson, including a previously unpublished essay, "Adverbs of Action."
Essays On Contemporary Events
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Author : C.G. Jung
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Essays On Contemporary Events written by C.G. Jung and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Medical categories.
Was the leading psychologist of his time a Nazi sympathiser? This was the question asked by many after the Second World War, as they sought to explain Jung's actions and publications during Nazi rule. So great was the controversy that his reputation risked being permanently damaged. Essays on Contemporary Events was the first broadside in his vigorous defence of his beleaguered reputation. This remarkable work is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Jung. It will enable the reader to decide: was Jung wholly innocent of the accusations or had he, like so many others, fallen under the Nazi spell and was now trying to make amends.
Essays On Anscombe S Intention
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Author : Anton Ford
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Essays On Anscombe S Intention written by Anton Ford and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Philosophy categories.
G. E. M. Anscombe's Intention, firmly established the philosophy of action as a distinctive field of inquiry. Donald Davidson called this 94-page book "the most important treatment of action since Aristotle." But until quite recently, few scholars recognized the magnitude of Anscombe's philosophical achievement. This collection of ten essays elucidates some of the more challenging aspects of Anscombe's work and affirms her reputation as one of our most original philosophers. Born in 1919, Anscombe studied at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where she later held a research fellowship. In 1941 she married philosopher Peter Geach, with whom she had seven children. A close friend of Wittgenstein, in 1946 she joined Oxford's Somerville College and spent the next twenty-four years there before being appointed to the Chair of Philosophy at Cambridge that Wittgenstein had held. She died in 2001 after her long career as a highly regarded analytic philosopher. This volume brings together fresh interpretations of Intention written by some of today's leading philosophers of action. It will enlighten Anscombe's readers who struggle with concepts they find puzzling or obscure, while providing a bracing corrective to doubts about Intention's significance and the gravity of what is at stake.
Subjective Intersubjective Objective
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Author : Donald Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2001-09-27
Subjective Intersubjective Objective written by Donald Davidson and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-27 with Philosophy categories.
Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective is the long-awaited third volume of philosophical writings by Donald Davidson, whose influence on philosophy since the 1960s has been deep and broad. His first two collections, published by OUP in the early 1980s, are recognized as contemporary classics. Now Davidson presents a selection of his work on knowledge, mind, and language from the 1980s and the 1990s. We all have knowledge of our own minds, knowledge of the contents of other minds, and knowledge of the shared environment. Davidson examines the nature and status of each of these three sorts of knowledge, and the connections and differences among them. Along the way he has illuminating things to say about truth, human rationality, and the relations among language, thought, and the world. This new volume offers a rich and rewarding feast for anyone interested in philosophy today, and is essential reading for anyone working on its central topics.
Philosophical Essays On Divine Causation
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Author : Gregory Ganssle
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-12-30
Philosophical Essays On Divine Causation written by Gregory Ganssle and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with Philosophy categories.
This book discusses various aspects of God’s causal activity. Traditional theology has long held that God acts in the world and interrupts the normal course of events by performing special acts. Although the tradition is unified in affirming that God does create, conserve, and act, there is much disagreement about the details of divine activity. The chapters in this book fruitfully explore these disagreements about divine causation. The chapters are divided into two sections. The first explores historical views of divine causal activity from the Pre-Socratics to Hume. The second section addresses a variety of contemporary issues related to God’s causal activity. These chapters include defenses of the possibility of special acts of God, proposals of models of divine causation, and analyses of divine conservation. Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and metaphysics.
Philosophy As Criticism
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Author : Ilham Dilman
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-03-17
Philosophy As Criticism written by Ilham Dilman and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-17 with Philosophy categories.
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Essays In Philosophy And Its History
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Author : Wilfrid Sellars
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Essays In Philosophy And Its History written by Wilfrid Sellars and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
In pulling these essays together for inclusion in one volume I do not believe that I have done them violence. Since they originally appeared at different times and places they constitute a scattered object. Never theless, to the author's eye they have unities of theme and development which, if they fail to give them the true identity of the book, may (to adapt a metaphor from Hume) generate those smooth and easy transi tions of the imagination which arouse dispositions appropriate to sur veying such identical objects. For the juxtaposition of historical and systematic studies I make no apology. It has been suggested, with a friendly touch of malice, that if Science and Metaphysics consists, as its subtitle proclaims, of Variations on Kantian Themes, it would be no less accurate to sub-title my historical essays 'variations on Sellars ian themes'. But this is as it should be. Phi losophy is a continuing dialogue with one's contemporaries, living and dead, and if one fails to see oneself in one's respondent and one's re spondent in oneself, there is confrontation but no dialogue. The historian, as Collingwood points out, becomes Caesar's contemporary by learning to think Caesar's thoughts. And it is because Plato thought so many of our thoughts that he is our contemporary and companion.