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Essays on Actions and Events

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780199246274
  • Genres
  • philosophy, metaphysics, language
  • Release date
  • 2013