Action and Its Explanation

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-823588-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

David-Hillel Ruben mounts a defence of some unusual and original positions in the philosophy of action. His book draws its inspiration from philosophers as diverse as Aristotle, Berkeley, and Marx. Ruben's work is located in the tradition of the metaphysics of action.

David-Hillel Ruben's new book pursues some novel and unusual standpoints in the philosophy of action. He rejects, for example, the most widely held view about how to count actions, and argues for what he calls a 'prolific theory' of act individuation. He

Introduction; 1. The Cambridge Theory of Action; 2. Some Preliminaries; 3. Theories of Action and an Introduction to the Causal Theory of Action; 4. The Causal Theory of Action; 5. More Theories; 6. A Counterfactual Theory of Causal Explanation; Appendix on the Epistemology of Action

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruben, David-Hillel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Über Autor(innen)

(New York University, USA, and University of London)