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Action Reconceptualized : Human Agency and Its Sources.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498519656
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Action ReconceptualizedDDC classification:
  • 128.4
LOC classification:
  • B105.A35 -- .C46 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Towards a Theory of Action -- Chapter Two: Intention -- Chapter Three: Desire -- Chapter Four: From Volitions to Tryings -- Chapter Five: Problems and Issues in Action Theory -- Chapter Six: Rational and Moral Agency -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In re-examining the concepts of desire, intention, and trying, David K. Chan brings a fresh approach toward resolving many of the problems that have occupied philosophers of action for almost a century. This book not only presents a complete theory of human agency but also, by developing the conceptual tools needed to do moral philosophy, lays the groundwork for formulating an ethics that is rooted in a clear, intuitive, and coherent moral psychology.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Towards a Theory of Action -- Chapter Two: Intention -- Chapter Three: Desire -- Chapter Four: From Volitions to Tryings -- Chapter Five: Problems and Issues in Action Theory -- Chapter Six: Rational and Moral Agency -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

In re-examining the concepts of desire, intention, and trying, David K. Chan brings a fresh approach toward resolving many of the problems that have occupied philosophers of action for almost a century. This book not only presents a complete theory of human agency but also, by developing the conceptual tools needed to do moral philosophy, lays the groundwork for formulating an ethics that is rooted in a clear, intuitive, and coherent moral psychology.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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