These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons. ÍNDICE: Notes on Contributors - Introduction - 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 Sallyb s Reason for Running From the Bear 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 Intentional Actions; 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 b 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 - FreeAgency, 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 - Aristotleb s Conception of Practical Thinking; A.W.Price - Action in Moral Metaphysics; J.Dancy - Non-cognitivism and Motivation; N.Zangwill - Index-
- ISBN: 978-0-230-52202-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 448
- Fecha Publicación: 28/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés