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Author Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003.

Title Essays on actions and events / Donald Davidson
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1980

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Description xvi, 304 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Actions, reasons, and causes -- How is weakness of the will possible? -- Agency -- Freedom to act -- Intending -- The logical form of action sentences; criticism, comment, and defence -- Causal relations -- The individuation of events -- Events as particulars -- Eternal vs. ephemeral events -- Mental events; appendix: emeroses by other names -- Psychology as philosophy; comments and replies -- The material mind -- Hempel on explaining action -- Hume's cognitive theory of pride
Analysis Man Actions Causes
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [291]-299
Subject Act (Philosophy)
Events (Philosophy)
LC no. 80040064
ISBN 0198245297
0198246374 (paperback)