Causing human actions : new perspectives on the causal theory of action / edited by Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff.
2010
B105.A35 C38 2010
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Title
Causing human actions : new perspectives on the causal theory of action / edited by Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff.
ISBN
9780262290340 (electronic bk.)
0262290340 (electronic bk.)
026228913X (electronic bk.)
9780262289139 (electronic bk.)
9780262014564 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262014564 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262514767 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262514761 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262290340 (electronic bk.)
026228913X (electronic bk.)
9780262289139 (electronic bk.)
9780262014564 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262014564 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262514767 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262514761 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 327 pages)
Call Number
B105.A35 C38 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
128/.4
Summary
"The causal theory of action (CTA) is widely recognized in the literature of the philosophy of action as the "standard story" of human action and agency - the nearest approximation in the field to a theoretical orthodoxy. This volume brings together leading figures working in action theory today to discuss issues relating to the CTA and its applications, which range from experimental philosophy to moral psychology. Some of the contributors defend the theory while others criticize it; some draw from historical sources while others focus on recent developments; some rely on the tools of analytic philosophy while others cite the latest empirical research on human action. All agree, however, on the centrality of the CTA in the philosophy of action.
The contributors first consider metaphysical issues, then reasons-explanations of action, and, finally, new directions for thinking about the CTA. They discuss such topics as the tenability of some alternatives to the CTA; basic causal deviance; the etiology of action; teleologism and anticausalism; and the compatibility of the CTA with theories of embodied cognition. Two contributors engage in an exchange of views on intentional omissions that stretches over four essays, directly responding to each other in their follow-up essays."--Pub. desc.
The contributors first consider metaphysical issues, then reasons-explanations of action, and, finally, new directions for thinking about the CTA. They discuss such topics as the tenability of some alternatives to the CTA; basic causal deviance; the etiology of action; teleologism and anticausalism; and the compatibility of the CTA with theories of embodied cognition. Two contributors engage in an exchange of views on intentional omissions that stretches over four essays, directly responding to each other in their follow-up essays."--Pub. desc.
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