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Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory.
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"This is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear in a good many years."--P.F. Strawson, Times Literary Supplement"[A] solid collection of important papers."--John Heil, Virginia Commonwealth University "This is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear in a good many years."--P.F. Strawson, Times Literary Supplement "[A] solid collection of important papers."--John Heil, Virginia Commonwealth University "This is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear in a good many years."--P.F. Strawson, Times Literary Supplement "[A] solid collection of important papers."--John Heil, Virginia Commonwealth University "This is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear in a good many years."--P.F. Strawson, Times Literary Supplement"[A] solid collection of important papers."--John Heil, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0198245297
- ISBN 13 9780198245292
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- Number of pages320
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