Jonathan D Payton

Negative Actions

Events, Absences, and the Metaphysics of Agency

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive study of negative actions, our thought and talk about them, and their place in a theory of action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108839792
• ISBN-10: 1108839797
• Artikelnr.: 60204580

Autorenporträt

Jonathan D. Payton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University, Turkey. He has published numerous articles on metaphysics, the philosophy of action and the philosophy of language in journals including the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis and Synthese.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Action and ontology
2. The problem of negative action
3. Mere manifestations of agency?
4. The logical form of negative action sentences I: the case for deflationism
5. The logical form of negative action sentences II: a Neo-Davidsonian approach
6. The logical form of negative action sentences III: the approach defended
7. Realizer-functionalism and the metaphysics of events
8. Objections
Conclusions.