Essays on Actions and Events

Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780199246267ISBN10: 0199246262 Hardback, 352 pages

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

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352 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-924626-7ISBN10: 0-19-924626-2

About the Author(s)

Donald Davidson, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

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