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Pluralism about Action
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 90–96 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Recent Work on Pluralism Action and Process Control Acknowledgments References.Author's Profile
pluralism about action action theory, traditionally addressed itself ‐ in the first place to the question of what, metaphysically actions are what agents do, and products of human activity often do not end up being one kind of thing so‐called Canberra Plan, object of metaphysics ‐ to elicit implicit folk theory of one or another domain of interest Bowman‐Lelanuja Thesis, an intriguing consequence of two lines of argument action and process control ‐ action theory, what actions are, metaphysically, but what does that mean analogy, a useful reality check on models programming analogy, continuing to be a helpful guide
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