J. Swindal

Gebundenes Buch

Action and Existence

A Case for Agent Causation

Beschreibung

Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained.

Autor

JAMES SWINDAL is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, USA. He is author of Reflection Revisited: Jürgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth and has published on topics in critical theory, neo-pragmatism, ethics, and Catholic philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-29667-1
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780230296671
• ISBN-10: 023029667X
• Artikelnr.: 34437844