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A theory of human action /

This book articulates an original scheme for the conceptualization of action. Beginning with a new approach to the individuation of acts, it delineates the relationships between basic and non-basic acts and uses these relationships in the definition of ability and intentional action. The author exhi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldman, Alvin I. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1976.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acts
  • The structure of action
  • Intentional action
  • Wanting
  • Explanations of action in the behavioral sciences
  • Determinism and predictability
  • Ability, excuses, and constraint
  • Epilogue : a look back and a look ahead.