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Action and Existence

A Case For Agent Causation

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  • © 2012

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  1. James Swindal

    1. Duquesne University, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Action, Thought, Pragmatism

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    Pages 1-12

  3. Neo-Pragmatism and its Critics

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    Pages 13-29

  4. Methodology: Reconstructive Dialectics

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    Pages 30-43

  5. A History of Action Theory

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    Pages 44-72

  6. Defining Actions

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    Pages 73-104

  7. The Explanation of Action

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    Pages 105-128

  8. A Material Explanation of Agency

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    Pages 129-138

  9. Agency and Existence

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    Pages 139-164

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 165-206
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About this book

Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained.

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  • Duquesne University, USA

    James Swindal

About the author

JAMES SWINDAL is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, USA. He is author of Reflection Revisited: Jürgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth and has published on topics in critical theory, neo-pragmatism, ethics, and Catholic philosophy.

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