A Companion to the Philosophy of Action

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Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2010)
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Action offers a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems central to the philosophy of action. The first volume to survey the entire field of philosophy of action (the central issues and processes relating to human actions). Brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts. Discusses a range of ideas and doctrines, including rationality, free will and determinism, virtuous action, criminal responsibility, Attribution Theory, and rational agency in evolutionary perspective. Individual chapters also cover prominent historic figures from Plato to Ricoeur. Can be approached as a complete narrative, but also serves as a work of reference. Offers rich insights into an area of philosophical thought that has attracted thinkers since the time of the ancient Greeks.

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B105.A35.C65 2010

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Cambridge Actions.David-Hillel Ruben
Ricøeur.Anna C. Zielinska
Action Theory and Ontology.  (pages 1–9)E. J. Lowe
Basic Actions and Individuation.  (pages 10–17)Constantine Sandis
Trying to Act.  (pages 18–25)Jennifer Hornsby
Bodily Movements.  (pages 26–31)Adrian Haddock
The Causal Theory of Action.  (pages 32–39)Wayne A. Davis
Adverbs of Action and Logical Form.  (pages 40–49)Kirk Ludwig
Refraining, Omitting, and Negative Acts.  (pages 50–57)Kent Bach
Speech Acts.  (pages 58–66)Mitchell S. Green
Collective Action.  (pages 67–73)Margaret Gilbert
Habitual actions.  (pages 74–81)Bill Pollard
Cambridge Actions.  (pages 82–89)David-Hillel Ruben
Pluralism about Action.  (pages 90–96)Elijah Millgram
Volition and the Will.  (pages 97–107)Laura W. Ekstrom
Intention.  (pages 108–113)Alfred R. Mele
Desire and Pleasure.  (pages 114–120)Timothy Schroeder
Teleological Explanation.  (pages 121–128)Scott Sehon
Reasons and Causes.  (pages 129–138)Timothy O'Connor
Triggering and Structuring Causes.  (pages 139–144)Fred Dretske
Motivating Reasons.  (pages 145–152)Stephen Everson
Humeanism about Motivation.  (pages 153–158)Michael Smith
Deviant Causal Chains.  (pages 159–165)Rowland Stout
Action Explanation and the Unconscious.  (pages 166–173)Edward Harcourt
Mental Causation and Epiphenomenalism.  (pages 174–181)John Heil
The Explanatory Role of Consciousness.  (pages 182–190)Naomi Eilan
What a Difference Emotions Make.  (pages 191–199)Sabine A. Döring
Agency, Patiency, and Personhood.  (pages 200–208)Soran Reader
Mental Acts.  (pages 209–217)Joëlle Proust
Agent Causation.  (pages 218–226)Randolph Clarke
Bodily Awareness and Bodily Action.  (pages 227–235)Hong Yu Wong
Agents' knowledge.  (pages 236–243)Johannes Roessler
Deliberation and Decision.  (pages 252–258)Philip Pettit
Motivational Strength.  (pages 259–266)Alfred R. Mele
Addiction and Compulsion.  (pages 267–273)Neil Levy
Akrasia and Irrationality.  (pages 274-282)Sergio Tenenbaum
Rationality.  (pages 283–292)John Broome
Motivational Internalism and Externalism.  (pages 293-300)G. F. Schueler
Free Will and Determinism.  (pages 301–308)Thomas Pink
Responsibility and Autonomy.  (pages 309–316)John Martin Fischer
Virtuous Action.  (pages 317–323)Rosalind Hursthouse
The doctrine of double effect.  (pages 324-330)David Simon Oderberg
Action and Criminal Responsibility.  (pages 331–337)R. A. Duff
Intention in Law.  (pages 338–344)Gideon Yaffe
Scientific Challenges to Free Will.  (pages 345-356)Eddy Nahmias
Intentional Action in Folk Psychology.  (pages 357–365)Bertram F. Malle
Attribution Theory.  (pages 366–373)Bernard Weiner
Rational agency in evolutionary perspective.  (pages 374–383)Kim Sterelny & Ben Jeffares
Animal Agency.  (pages 384–392)Hans-Johann Glock
Action in Cognitive Ethology.  (pages 393–400)Marc Bekoff
Action in History and Social Science.  (pages 401–409)Daniel Little
The Prediction of Action.  (pages 410–416)Nassim N. Taleb & Avital Pilpel
Indian Philosophers.  (pages 419-428)Elisa Freschi
Plato.  (pages 429–438)Christine J. Thomas
Aristotle.  (pages 439–446)Ursula Coope
Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotelians.  (pages 447–458)T. H. Irwin
Augustine and Aquinas.  (pages 459–465)Stephen Boulter
Duns Scotus.  (pages 466–472)Thomas Williams
Thomas Hobbes.  (pages 473–480)Thomas Pink
Descartes.  (pages 481–489)Paul Hoffman
Locke.  (pages 490–495)Matthew Stuart
Thomas Reid.  (pages 505–512)Maria Alvarez
Hume.  (pages 513–520)Annette C. Baier
Kant.  (pages 521–527)Eric Watkins
Nietzsche.  (pages 528–536)Brian Leiter
Hegel.  (pages 537–545)Michael Quante
Weber.  (pages 546–553)Kieran Allen
Wittgenstein.  (pages 554-561)S. Schroeder
Wittgenstein.  (pages 554–561)Severin Schroeder
Wittgenstein.  (pages 554–561)Severin Schroeder
Ryle.  (pages 562–569)Julia Tanney
Sartre.  (pages 570–577)Katherine J. Morris
Chisholm.  (pages 578–588)Michael J. Zimmerman
Von Wright.  (pages 589–597)Frederick Stoutland
Davidson.  (pages 598-605)Ralf Stoecker
Anscombe.  (pages 606–612)Roger Teichmann
Ricœur.  (pages 613–621)Anna C. Zielinska

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