Essays on Actions and Events

Donald (, University of California, Berkeley) Davidson

Oxford University Press, 2001

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Discusses topics such as: 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. This book argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects.

ISBN-13
9780199246274
ISBN-10
0199246270
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2001
Publication date
2001-09-27
Pages
352
Dimensions
212x136x19
Weight
438