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A Companion to the Philosophy of Action Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Timothy O'Connor (Editor); Constantine Sandis (Editor)


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A Companion to the Philosophy of Action provides a comprehensive overview of the central issues and processes relating to human actions. Specially commissioned chapters from international experts cover all facets of philosophy of action - from key figures and terminology to some of the more controversial problems in the field.

Divided into thematic sections, the book begins by examining ontological and conceptual issues regarding the nature of action, its description and individuation, and its motivation and causation. Later sections focus on a range of ideas and doctrines associated with action theory, including rationality, free will and determinism, virtuous action, criminal responsibility, Attribution Theory, and rational agency in evolutionary perspective. Individual chapters also cover prominent historic figures from Plato to Ricoeur.

A Companion to the Philosophy of Action offers rich insights into an area of philosophical thought that has attracted thinkers since the time of the ancient Greeks.

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  • Title A Companion to the Philosophy of Action
  • Author Timothy O'Connor (Editor); Constantine Sandis (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
  • Date 2012-10-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781118346327 / 1118346327
  • Weight 2.3 lbs (1.04 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.61 x 6.69 x 1.34 in (24.41 x 16.99 x 3.40 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.4

About the author

Timothy O'Connor is Professor and Department Chair of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, and a member of its Cognitive Sciences program. He has published extensively in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, and philosophy of religion. His books include Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will (ed. 1995), Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will (2000), Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings (ed. 2003), Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency (2008) and Downward Causation and the Necessity of Free Will (ed. 2010).

Constantine Sandis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and New York University in London. He is the editor of New Essays on the Explanation of Action (2009) and Hegel on Action (with Arto Laitinen, 2010), and author of The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (2010).

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