Essays on Actions and Events (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson) (The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes)) - Softcover

Davidson, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199246270 ISBN 13: 9780199246274

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2001

Synopsis

Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the 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.

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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:

"A classic in its field."--P. F. Strawson

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0199246270
• ISBN 13: 9780199246274
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352