Essays on Actions and Events - Softcover

Davidson, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198246374 ISBN 13: 9780198246374

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1980

Synopsis

This collection brings together a series of connected essays on the nature of human action. Davidson argues for an ontology that includes events along with persons and other objects. Topics discussed include freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Review:

"This is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear in a good many years."--P.F. Strawson, Times Literary Supplement

"[A] solid collection of important papers."--John Heil, Virginia Commonwealth University

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0198246374
• ISBN 13: 9780198246374
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304