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New Essays on the Explanation of Action

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  1. Constantine Sandis

    1. Oxford Brookes University and NYU, London, UK

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Constantine Sandis
      Pages 1-9

  3. Reasons and Causes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. What Must Actions Be for Reasons to Explain Them?

      • Fred Dretske
      Pages 13-21

    3. What Are Reasons for Action?

      • Stephen Everson
      Pages 22-47

    4. Was Sally’s Reason for Running from the Bear that She Thought it was Chasing Her?

      • Rowland Stout
      Pages 48-61

    5. Con-reasons as Causes

      • David-Hillel Ruben
      Pages 62-74

    6. Agential Reasons and the Explanation of Human Behaviour

      • Peter Hacker
      Pages 75-93

    7. Reasons as Non-causal, Context-placing Explanations

      • Julia Tanney
      Pages 94-111

    8. Interpretative Explanations

      • G. F. Schueler
      Pages 112-131

    9. Anscombe on Expression of Intention

      • Richard Moran, Martin J. Stone
      Pages 132-168

    10. Can One Act for a Reason without Acting Intentionally?

      • Joshua Knobe, Sean D. Kelly
      Pages 169-183

    11. Reasons: Explanatory and Normative

      • Joseph Raz
      Pages 184-202

    12. Reasons, Desires and Intentional Actions

      • Maria Alvarez
      Pages 203-219

    13. A Niggle at Nagel: Causally Active Desires and the Explanation of Action

      • Charles Pigden
      Pages 220-240

    14. Acting in Character

      • Annette Baier
      Pages 241-256

    15. Aquinas on Action and Action Explanation

      • Stephen Boulter
      Pages 257-275

    16. Acting for Reasons — A Grass Root Approach

      • Ralf Stoecker
      Pages 276-292

  4. Agency and Moral Psychology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293
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    2. Sub-intentional Actions and the Over-mentalization of Agency

      • Helen Steward
      Pages 295-312
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About this book

These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.

Reviews

'This is the most interesting collection of new articles in the philosophy of action for several years, and a clear signal that the orthodoxies of the last forty years are at last giving way to more plausible and fruitful philosophical ideas.'

- John Hyman, University of Oxford, UK

'Constantine Sandis has done a remarkable job of collecting some of the best essays on explanation of action Sandis' anthology is a wonderfully informative collection of essays on action explanation.' Joseph Ulatowski, University of Nevada, Metapsychology

'The discussions in this collection helpfully locate central issues that are up for re-thinking in the re-assessment of contemporary philosophy of action.' Robert Dunn, University of Sidney, Analysis

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oxford Brookes University and NYU, London, UK

    Constantine Sandis

About the editor

MARIA ALVAREZ is a philosophy lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK ANNETTE BAIER (retired) taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Auckland, Sydney, Carnegie-Mellon, and Pittsburgh, and held visiting appointments at Florida Gainesville, City University of New York, and Michigan, USA STEPHEN BOULTER is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, UK JONATHAN DANCY is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK, and at the University of Texas at Austin, USA FRED DRETSKE is Professor Emeritus at both Stanford University and University of Wisconsin. He is currently a senior research professor (no teaching) at Duke University, USA STEPHEN EVERSON is a lecturer at the University of York, UK PETER HACKER is Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, UK SEAN DORRANCE KELLY is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, USA JOSHUA KNOBE works primarily in experimental philosophy at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA E. J. LOWE is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK RICHARD MORAN is the Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, USA CHARLES PIGDEN teaches philosophy at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand A. W. PRICE is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JOSEPH RAZ is professor at Columbia Law School, USA and a Research Professor University of Oxford, UK DAVID-HILLEL RUBEN is Director of NYU in London and Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, UK G. F. SCHUELER is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware, USA HELEN STEWARD is working on topics in the philosophy of action, specifically as they relate to the free will debate at University of Leeds, UK RALF STOECKER is professor for philosophy, particularly applied ethics, at the University of Potsdam, Germany MARTIN STONE teaches Law at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University and Philosophy at the New School Graduate Faculty in New York, USA ROWLAND STOUT is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland FREDERICK STOUTLAND is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at St. Olaf College, Minnesota, USA and Permanent Visiting Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden JULIA TANNEY is a Senior Lecturer (and presently Head of Philosophy) at the University of Kent, UK NICK ZANGWILL is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Essays on the Explanation of Action

  • Editors: Constantine Sandis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582972

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-52202-2Published: 28 November 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35668-3Published: 01 January 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58297-2Published: 28 November 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 429

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology

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