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New essays on the explanation of action

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	New essays on the explanation of actionedited by Constantine Sandis.
other author:	Sandis, Constantine,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	xiii, 429 p. :ill. ;23 cm.
Subject:	Act (Philosophy)
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230582972

New essays on the explanation of action
New essays on the explanation of action[electronic resource] /edited by Constantine Sandis. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xiii, 429 p. :ill. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: REASONS AND CAUSES -- What Must Actions be for Reasons to Explain Them? / F.Dretske -- What Kind of Things are Reasons for Action? / S.Everson -- Was Sally's Reason for Running From theBear that She Thought it was Chasing Her? / R.Stout -- Con-reasons as Causes / D.H. Ruben -- Agential Reasons and the Explanation of Human Behaviour / P.M.S.Hacker -- Reasons as Non-causal, Context-placing Explanations / J.Tanney-- Interpretive Explanations / G.F.Schueler -- Anscombe on the Expression of Intention: An Exegesis / R.Moran & M.J.Stone -- Can One Act for a Reason Without Acting Intentionally? / J.Knobe & S.D.Kelly -- Reasons: Explanatory and Normative / J.Raz -- Reasons, Desires and IntentionalActions / M.Alvarez -- A Niggle at Nagel: Causally Active Desires and the Explanation of Action / C.Pigden -- Acting in Character / A.Baier -- Aquinas on the Explanation of Action / S.Boulter -- Acting for Reasons - A Grass Root Approach / R.Stoecker -- PART II: AGENCY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY -- Sub-Intentional Actions and the Over-Mentalization of Agency/ H.Steward -- Determinism, Intentional Action, and Bodily Movements /F.Stoutland -- Free Agency, Causation, and Action Explanation /E.J.Lowe -- Gods and Mental States / The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind / C.Sandis -- Aristotle's Conception of Practical Thinking / A.W.Price -- Action in MoralMetaphysics / J.Dancy -- Non-cognitivism and Motivation / N.Zangwill.

This collection of previously unpublished essays presents the newestdevelopments in the thought of international scholars working on the explanation of action. The contributions focus on a widerange of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interprative explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons. Challenging numerous current orthodoxies, and offering positive suggestions from a variety of different perspectives, this book provides essential reading for anyone interested in the explanation of action. Contributors: Maria Alvarez - Annette Baier - Stephen Boulter - Jonathan Dancy - Fred Dretske - Stephen Everson - P.M.S. Hacker -Sean D. Kelly - Joshua Knobe - E. J. Lowe -Richard Moran - Charles Pigden - A.W. Price - Joseph Raz - David-Hillel Ruben - Constantine Sandis- G.F. Schueler - Helen Steward - Ralf Stoecker - Martin J. Stone - Rowland Stout - Frederick Stoutland - Julia Tanney - Nick Zangwill.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230582972

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230582972doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

200481
Act (Philosophy)
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: B105.A35 / N48 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 128/.4

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