Reasons and Causes

Causalism and Anti-Causalism in the Philosophy of Action
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-58064-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: History of Analytic Philosophy

Are the reasons for which we act the causes of our actions? In the nine essays collected here (including a major historical overview by the editors), experts in the field re-evaluate the history and current state of the reasons/causes debate.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laitinen, A.

Sandis, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. From Anti-Causalism to Causalism and Back: A History of the Reasons/Causes Debate; Giuseppina D'Oro and Constantine Sandis 2. Still a Cause for Concern: Reasons, Causes and Explanations; Dan Hutto 3. Mental Causation According to Davidson; John Heil 4. Why Rationalization Is Not a Species of Causal Explanation; Brian P. McLaughlin 5. Prolegomena to a Cartographical Investigation of Cause and Reason; Julia Tanney 6. Explaining Actions and Explaining Bodily Movements; Maria Alvarez 7. Actions, Explanations, and Causes; Alfred R. Mele 8. The Causal Theory of Action and the Commitments of Common Sense Psychology; Scott Sehon 9. Explaining Human Agency: Reasons, Causes, and the First Person Perspective; Karsten Stueber Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Alvarez, King's College London, UK
John Heil, Washington University in St Louis, USA
Daniel D. Hutto, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Brian P. McLaughlin, Rutgers University, USA
Alfred R. Mele, Florida State University, USA
Scott Sehon, Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine, USA
Karsten Stueber, College of the Holy Cross in Worcester Massachusetts, USA
Julia Tanney, University of Kent, UK