Agents and Their Actions

Ed.: Maximilian De Gaynesford

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting a recent flourishing of creative thinking in the field, Agents and Their Actions presents seven newly commissionedessays by leading international philosophers that highlight themost recent debates in the philosophy of action

Features seven internationally significant authors, includingnew work by two of philosophy s 'super stars', JohnMcDowell and Joseph Raz

Presents the first clear indication of how John McDowell isextending his path-breaking work on intentionality and perceptualexperience towards an account of action and agency

Covers all the major interconnections between action-agencyand central areas of Philosophy: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Historyof Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Philosophy of Language

Provides a snapshot of current debate on the subject, which isfresh, enlightening, and fruitful

Produktdetails

• Ratio Special Issues
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 163g
• ISBN-13: 9781444339086
• ISBN-10: 1444339087
• Artikelnr.: 33239023

Autorenporträt

Maximilian de Gaynesford is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. A previous Fellow of Lincoln College Oxford, de Gaynesford is the author of I: The Meaning of the First Person Term (2006), Hilary Putnam (2006), John McDowell (2004), and a number of articles on the philosophy of mind and language, moral philosophy, and aesthetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Reasons for Action and Practical Reasoning (Maria Alvarez). 2.
Ambivalence and Authentic Agency (Laura W. Ekstrom). 3. The Road to Larissa
(John Hyman). 4. What is the Content of an Intention in Action? (John
McDowell). 5. Joseph Raz Being in the World (Joseph Raz). 6. Moral
Scepticism and Agency (Kant and Korsgaard Robert Stern). 7. Speech, Action
and Uptake (Maximilian de Gaynesford). Index.