Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe

Herausgeber: Sandis, Constantine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection on the history of philosophy of action since 1500 brings together specialists from both the philosophy of action and the history of philosophy, with the aim of re-assessing the wider philosophical impact of action theory. This book was originally published as a special issue of Philosophical Explorations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780367510220
• ISBN-10: 0367510227
• Artikelnr.: 69893110

Autorenporträt

Constantine Sandis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. Agents, objects, and their powers in Suarez and
Hobbes 2. Human action and virtue in Descartes and Spinoza 3. Action,
knowledge and embodiment in Berkeley and Locke 4. Sympathetic action in the
seventeenth century: human and natural 5. Hume's better argument for
motivational scepticism 6. Kant and Hegel on purposive action 7. Action,
interaction and inaction: post-Kantian accounts of thinking, willing, and
doing in Fichte and Schopenhauer 8. Nietzsche's account of self-conscious
agency 9. Before ethics: scientific accounts of action at the turn of the
century 10. The touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not
events 11. Remarks on the "thickness" of action description: with
Wittgenstein, Ryle, and Anscombe