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Choice

Name: Choice
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9781138635135
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Autor: Alan Donagan

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This book, first published in 1987, investigates what distinguishes the part of human behaviour that...

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Autor

Alan Donagan

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2017

Pagini

210

EAN

9781138635135

ISBN

9781138635135

Enbook ID

15508533

Editura

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Greutate

550

Dimensiuni

156 x 234

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This book, first published in 1987, investigates what distinguishes the part of human behaviour that is action (praxis) from the part that is not. The distinction was clearly drawn by Socrates, and developed by Aristotle and the medievals, but key elements of their work became obscured in modern philosophy, and were not fully recovered when, under Wittgenstein’s influence, the theory of action was revived in analytical philosophy. This study aims to recover those elements, and to analyse them in terms of a defensible semantics on Fregean lines. Among its conclusions: that actions are bodily or mental events that are causally explained by their doers’ propositional attitudes, especially by their choices or fully specific intentions; that choice cannot be reduced to desire and belief, and hence that the traditional concept of will as intellectual appetite must be revived.