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Causing human actions new perspectives on the causal theory of action

Title
Causing human actions [electronic resource] : new perspectives on the causal theory of action / edited by Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Aguilar, Jesús H. (Jesús Humberto), 1962-
  • Buckareff, Andrei A., 1971-
Description
1 online resource (viii, 327 p.)
Uniform Title
Causing human actions (Online)
Subject
  • Act (Philosophy)
  • Action theory
  • Intentionality (Philosophy)
Note
  • "A Bradford book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
The causal theory of action: origins and issues / Jesús H. Aguilar ; Andrei A. Buckareff -- Renewed questions about the causal theory of action / Michael S. Moore -- The standard story of action: an exchange (1) / Michael Smith -- The standard story of action: an exchange (2) / Jennifer Hornsby -- Skepticism about natural agency and the causal theory of action / John Bishop -- Agential systems, causal deviance, and reliability / Jesús H. Aguilar -- What are you causing in acting? / Rowland Stout -- Omissions and causalism / Carolina Sartorio -- Intentional omissions / Randolph Clarke -- Comments on Clarke's "intentional omissions" / Carolina Sartorio -- Reply to Sartorio / Randolph Clarke -- Causal and deliberative strength of reasons for action: the case of con-reasons / David-Hillel Ruben -- Teleological explanations of actions: anticausalism versus causalism / Alfred R. Mele -- Teleology and causal understanding in children's theory of mind / Josef Perner ; Johannes Roessler -- Action theory meets embodied cognition / Fred Adams -- Intentions as complex dynamical attractors / Alicia Juarrero -- The causal theory of action and the still puzzling knobe effect / Thomas Nadelhoffer.
LCCN
2010003187
OCLC
ssj0000818778
Title
Causing human actions [electronic resource] : new perspectives on the causal theory of action / edited by Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Aguilar, Jesús H. (Jesús Humberto), 1962-
Buckareff, Andrei A., 1971-
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