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Action.
The traditional focus of debate in philosophy of action has been the causal theory of action and metaphysical questions about the nature of actions as events. In this lucid and lively introduction to philosophy of action, Rowland Stout shows how these issues are subsidiary to more central ones that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Central problems of philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: inward-looking and outward-looking approaches to agency; 2 Acting for a reason; 3 Reasons and passions; 4 Agent causation; 5 Mental causation; 6 Deviant causal chains and causal processes; 7 Acting with an intention; 8 Prior intention; 9 The metaphysics of action; Conclusion; Notes; Suggestions for further reading; References; Index.