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Causing Human Actions : New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Bradford Book SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262289139
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Causing Human ActionsDDC classification:
  • 128/.4
LOC classification:
  • B105.A35C38 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Causal Theory of Action: Origins and Issues -- 2 Renewed Questions about the Causal Theory of Action -- 3 The Standard Story of Action: An Exchange (1) -- 4 The Standard Story of Action: An Exchange (2) -- 5 Skepticism about Natural Agency and the Causal Theory of Action -- 6 Agential Systems, Causal Deviance, and Reliability -- 7 What Are You Causing in Acting? -- 8 Omissions and Causalism -- 9 Intentional Omissions -- 10 Comments on Clarke's "Intentional Omissions" -- 11 Reply to Sartorio -- 12 Causal and Deliberative Strength of Reasons for Action -- 13 Teleological Explanations of Actions -- 14 Teleology and Causal Understanding in Children's Theory of Mind -- 15 Action Theory Meets Embodied Cognition -- 16 Intentions as Complex Dynamical Attractors -- 17 The Causal Theory of Action and the Still Puzzling Knobe Effect -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Leading figures working in the philosophy of action debate foundational issues relating to the causal theory of action.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Causal Theory of Action: Origins and Issues -- 2 Renewed Questions about the Causal Theory of Action -- 3 The Standard Story of Action: An Exchange (1) -- 4 The Standard Story of Action: An Exchange (2) -- 5 Skepticism about Natural Agency and the Causal Theory of Action -- 6 Agential Systems, Causal Deviance, and Reliability -- 7 What Are You Causing in Acting? -- 8 Omissions and Causalism -- 9 Intentional Omissions -- 10 Comments on Clarke's "Intentional Omissions" -- 11 Reply to Sartorio -- 12 Causal and Deliberative Strength of Reasons for Action -- 13 Teleological Explanations of Actions -- 14 Teleology and Causal Understanding in Children's Theory of Mind -- 15 Action Theory Meets Embodied Cognition -- 16 Intentions as Complex Dynamical Attractors -- 17 The Causal Theory of Action and the Still Puzzling Knobe Effect -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

Leading figures working in the philosophy of action debate foundational issues relating to the causal theory of action.

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