205741

Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2012

206 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-33382-0

Action and existence

a case for agent causation

James Swindal

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.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1057/9780230355460

Full citation:

Swindal, J. (2012). Action and existence: a case for agent causation, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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1-12

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Neo-pragmatism and its critics

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13-29

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Methodology

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30-43

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A history of action theory

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44-72

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Defining actions

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73-104

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The explanation of action

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105-128

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A material explanation of agency

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129-138

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Agency and existence

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139-164

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