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Essays on Actions and Events 0 Edition
Author(s): Donald Davidson (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: October 2, 1980
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198246374
- ISBN-13: 9780198246374
Book Description
This collection brings together a series of connected essays on the nature of human action. Davidson argues for an ontology that includes events along with persons and other objects. Topics discussed include 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear in a good many years."--P.F. Strawson, Times Literary Supplement
"[A] solid collection of important papers."--John Heil, Virginia Commonwealth University
