Essays on Actions and Events

2. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924626-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgments

- Introduction

- Intention and Action

- 2: How is Weakness of the Will Possible? (1969)

- 3: Agency (1971)

- 4: Freedom to Act (1973)

- 5: Intending (1978)

- Event and Cause

- Criticism, Comment, and Defence

- 7: Causal Relations (1967)

- 8: The Individuation of Events (1969)

- 9: Events as Particulars (1970)

- 10: Eternal vs. Ephemeral Events (1971)

- Philosophy of Psychology

- Appendix: Emeroses by Other Names (1966)

- 12: Psychology as Philosophy (1974)

- Comments and Replies

- 13: The Material Mind (1973)

- 14: Hempel on Explaining Action (1976)

- 15: Hume's Cognitive Theory of Pride (1976)

- Appendix A: Adverbs of Action (1985)

- Appendix B: Reply to Quine on Events (1985)

- Index, Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.