| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 324 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-319) and index. |
| Contents |
Actions, reasons, and causes -- How is weakness of the will possible? -- Agency -- Freedom to act -- Intending -- The logical form of action sentences; criticism, comment, and defence -- Causal relations -- The individuation of events -- Events as particulars -- Eternal vs. ephemeral events -- Mental events; appendix: emeroses by other names -- Psychology as philosophy -- The material mind -- Hempel on explaining action -- Hume's cognitive theory of pride. |
| Summary |
Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Act (Philosophy)
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Act (Philosophy) |
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Events (Philosophy)
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Events (Philosophy) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003. Essays on actions and events. 2nd ed. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001 0199246262 9780199246267 (DLC) 2002278425 (OCoLC)47063301 |
| ISBN |
9780191529825 (electronic book) |
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0191529826 (electronic book) |
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9780199246274 |
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0199246270 |
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0199246262 (hardback) |
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0199246270 (paperback) |
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9780199246267 |
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