'The Things We Do and Why We Do Them' argues against the common assumption that there is one thing called 'action' which all reason-giving explanations of action are geared towards. Sandis shows why all theories concerned with identifying the nature of our 'real' reasons for action fail from the outset. CONSTANTINE SANDIS Reader in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and aFellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. He has published numerous articles and edited three books on action and its explanation. INDICE: Preface - Acknowledgments - Analytic Table of Contents - 20 Conflating Views to Avoid - The Objectives of Action Explanation - Conflation in Action - What Makes An Explanation Proper? - The Operation of Reasons - Nested Explanations - The Structure of Agential Explanation - Spheres of Explanation - Appendix I - The Ontology of Action - Appendix II - Thought and Motive in Historiography - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-52212-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 16/12/2011
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- Idioma: Inglés