A Companion to the Philosophy of Action

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Action offers a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems central to the philosophy of action. The first volume to survey the entire field of philosophy of action (the central issues and processes relating to human actions) Brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts Discusses a range of ideas and doctrines, including rationality, free will and determinism, virtuous action, criminal responsibility, Attribution Theory, and rational agency in evolutionary perspective Individual chapters also cover prominent historic figures from Plato to Ricoeur Can be approached as a complete narrative, but also serves as a work of reference Offers rich insights into an area of philosophical thought that has attracted thinkers since the time of the ancient Greeks

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Timothy O Connor is Professor and Department Chair ofphilosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, and a member of itsCognitive Sciences program. He has published extensively inmetaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, and philosophy ofreligion. His books include Agents, Causes, and Events: Essayson Indeterminism and Free Will (ed. 1995), Persons andCauses: The Metaphysics of Free Will (2000), Philosophy ofMind: Contemporary Readings (ed. 2003), Theism and UltimateExplanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency (2008) and Downward Causation and the Necessity of Free Will (ed.2010). Constantine Sandis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy atOxford Brookes University and New York University in London. He isthe editor of New Essays on the Explanation of Action (2009)and Hegel on Action (with Arto Laitinen, 2010), and authorof The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (2010).

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April 28th, 2010

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Edited by Constantine Sandis
Edited by Timothy O'Connor

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664

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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

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183x257x42

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9781405187350

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4731122

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