Description |
xiii, 507 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 488-497. |
Note |
Includes index. |
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Contains many of the papers presented at a conference held at Rutgers University, Apr. 28, 1984; complements Truth and interpretation (1986) in which other essays appear. |
Contents |
Actions, reasons, causes, and intentions / Ernest LePore & Brian P. McLaughlin -- Davidson's theory of intention / Michael Bratman -- Davidson on intentional action / George M. Wilson -- Davidson on intentional behavior / Frederick Stoutland -- Nature and scope of rational-choice explanation / Jon Elster -- Fishing the red herrings out of the sea of moral responsibility / Peter A. French -- Questions about motivation strength / Irving Thalberg -- Davidson on moral conflict / Frank Jackson -- Rhyme and reason : reflections on Davidson's version of having reasons / Annette C. Baier -- Reply to Annette Baier : rhyme and reason / David Pears -- Deception and division / Donald Davidson -- Semantics of action, event, and singular causal sentences / Ernest LePore -- Events and reification / W.V.O. Quine -- Reply to Quine on events / Donald Davidson -- Actions and events despite Bertrand Russell / James D. McCawley -- Adverb-dropping inferences and the Lemmon criterion / Jonathan Bennett -- Decompositional approach to modification / Jerrold J. Katz, Claudia Leacock & Yael Ravin -- Underlying events in the logical analysis of English / Terence Parsons -- How not to flip the prowler : transitive verbs of actions and the identity of actions / Lawrence Brian Lombard -- Causal relata / David H. Sanford -- Aspectual actions and Davidson's theory of events / Hector-Neri Castaneda -- Causation and explanation : a problem in Davidson's view on action and mind / Dagfinn Føllesdal -- Adverbs and subdeterminates / Roderick M. Chisholm -- Anomalous monism and the irreducibility of the mental / Brian P. McLaughlin -- Psychophysical laws / Jaegwon Kim -- Functionalism and anomalous monism / John McDowell -- Davidson's unintended attack on psychology / Alexander Rosenberg -- Why having a mind matters / Mark Johnston -- Against the token identity theory / Terence Horgan & Michael Tye -- Physicalism, events and part-whole relations / Jennifer Hornsby -- Davidson and Sartre / Esa Saarinen -- Rational animals / Donald Davidson -- Animal interpretation / Richard Jeffery. |
Subject |
Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003. Essays on actions and events.
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Act (Philosophy)
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Act (Philosophy) |
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Events (Philosophy)
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Events (Philosophy) |
Indexed Term |
Man Actions Causes Theories of Davidson, Donald, 1917- |
Added Author |
LePore, Ernest, 1950-
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McLaughlin, Brian P.
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Added Title |
Truth and interpretation.
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ISBN |
063114451X |
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9780631144519 |
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0631161872 paperback |
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9780631161875 paperback |
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