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Essays on actions and events

Author: Donald Davidson
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
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Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003.
Essays on actions and events.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1980
(OCoLC)610132798
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Donald Davidson
ISBN: 0198245297 9780198245292 0198246374 9780198246374
OCLC Number: 6197158
Notes: Includes index.
Performer(s): ISBN 0-19-824637-4 Pbk : \3.50.
Description: xvi, 304 p. ; 23 cm.
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; comments and replies --
The material mind --
Hempel on explaining action --
Hume's cognitive theory of pride.
Responsibility: Donald Davidson.

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