Research Catalog

Title

Action theory / ed. by Ernest Sosa and Enrique Villanueva.

Publication

Boston, MA^^: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Sosa, Ernest
• Villanueva, Enrique
• Brogaard, Berit

Description

436 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Philosophical issues ; 22

Uniform Title

Philosophical issues ; 22.

Subject

• Action theory
• Action theory > Congresses
• Agent (Philosophy) > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Basic causal deviance, action repertoires, and reliability / Jesús H. Aguilar -- Self-defeating self-governance / Chrisoula Andreou -- Conclusive reasons, knowledge, and action / John A. Barker and Fred Adams -- Exercising control in practical reasoning: problems for naturalism about agency / John Bishop -- Time, rationality, and self-governance / Michael E. Bratman -- An action theoretic problem for intralevel mental causation / Andrei A. Buckareff -- Are hard choices cases for incomparability? / Ruth Chang -- What is an omission? / Randolph Clarke -- Diachronic constraints of practical rationality / Luca Ferrero -- Responsibility and autonomy: the problem of mission creep / John Martin Fischer -- Free will and rational coherency / Patricia Greenspan -- Modest libertarianism and practical reason / Ishtiyaque Haji -- Accountability and some social dimensions of human agency / Bennett W. Helm -- Actions and activity / Jennifer Hornsby -- Making decisions / Hugh J. McCann -- Defending nonhistorical compatibilism: a reply to Haji and Cuypers / Michael McKenna -- Folk conceptions of intentional action / Alfred R. Mele -- Frankfurt examples, derivative responsibility, and the timing objection / Derk Pereboom -- The norms of acceptance / Joëlle Proust -- On the relation between wanting and willing / Tamar Schapiro -- Action explanation and the free will debate: how incompatibilist arguments go wrong / Scott Sehon -- Using moral principles to guide decisions / Holly Smith -- Four objections to the standard story of action (and four replies) / Michael Smith -- Group reasons / Raimo Tuomela -- Why the luck problem isn't / Manuel Vargas.

ISBN

• 111854532X
• 9781118545324

OCLC

• 810533975
• SCSB-12413556

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library