UID:
almafu_9958355008202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (398p.)
ISBN:
9783110898798
Inhalt:
Das Buch beleuchtet den Begriff der Handlung in drei unterschiedlichen Kontexten: im Kontext der Rechtfertigung von Handlungen, der Lebensgeschichte von Personen und des Pragmatismus. Eine solche umfassende Betrachtung, die eine Abkehr von der atomisti
Inhalt:
The book illustrates the concept of action in three different contexts - the justification of actions, people’s life history, and pragmatism. Because of its comprehensive view, this volume marks a departure from the atomistic approach of action theory. This in itself raises a number of questions, which the ten contributors to this volume deal with in an instructive manner.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Through Contexts to Actions --
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Thought and Action --
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I. Acting for Reasons --
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Reasons for Action and Psychological States --
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Reasons for Action without Metaphysics? --
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The Causalist/Anti-causalist Debate in the Theory of Action: What It Is and Why It Matters --
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In Defence of Causalism --
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Two Ways to Understand Causality in Agency --
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On the Importance of Reconciling Two Models of Causality in Agency --
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Actions, Habits, and Practices --
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The Reach of Habit --
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II. Action, Persons and Life --
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What Good is a Will? --
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On the Ways and Uses of Intending: Lessons from Velleman’s Bratman Critique --
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Personal Identity and Agency: Towards Analytical Personalism --
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Looking for the Real Enemy --
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The Units of Living --
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Making Sense of Ourselves --
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III. Action and Epistemology --
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Knowledge in Action --
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A Seeming Solution to a Seeming Puzzle in Explaining Action --
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Cognition and Action --
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Notes on Distinctions --
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Action and Inquiry --
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Knowledgeable Inquiry --
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Name Index --
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Subject Index
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 978-3-11-018893-6
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110898798
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110898798
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110898798
