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Action and Existence = A Case for Agent Causation.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Action and Existence/
Reminder of title:	A Case for Agent Causation.
Author:	Swindal, James.
other author:	Swindal, Dr James.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (217 p.)
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record.
Subject:	Agent (Philosophy) -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230355460
ISBN:	9780230355460 (electronic bk.)

Action and Existence = A Case for Agent Causation.
Swindal, James.

Action and ExistenceA Case for Agent Causation.[electronic resource] : - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (217 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Action, Thought, Pragmatism; I. Epistemic accounts of action; II. Pragmatic accounts of action; III. The metaphysics of action; IV. Overview of the argument; Chapter 1 Neo-Pragmatism and its Critics; I. Habermas: The criticism of semantic models of meaning; 1. Habermas's pragmatic theory of meaning; 2. Criticisms of universal pragmatics; II. Habermas, Brandom and the 'normative fallacy'; Conclusions; Chapter 2 Methodology: Reconstructive Dialectics; I. What a dialectical analysis is not

Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained.

ISBN: 9780230355460 (electronic bk.)

Source: 497870Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Davidson, Donald,
1917-2003.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Agent (Philosophy)
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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BD450 / .S95 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 128.4

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505 8 $a II. Reconstructive dialectics1. Reflection as a cognitive act; 2. Reconstructive reflection as philosophical analysis; Conclusions; Chapter 3 A History of Action Theory; I. The Aristotelian-scholastic view of action; 1. Aquinas's psychological typology of action; 2. Criticisms of the Aristotelian-scholastic model; II. The modern tradition: Hume and Kant; III. The modern tradition: Fichte and Hegel; Conclusions; Chapter 4 Defining Actions; I. Functionalist views of action and their critics; II. The emergence of analytic theories of action; III. The semantic reconstruction of action
505 8 $a 1. The individuation of actions2. Actions and causes; 3. Actions and agency; IV. A definition of action; Conclusions; Chapter 5 The Explanation of Action; I. Cognitive views of action explanation; II. Material constraints on cognitive agencies; 1. The antinomy of agency; 2. First person representation of the material conditions of action; 3. Totality, inference, and action; Conclusions; Chapter 6 A Material Explanation of Agency; I. Motion and existence; II. A history of the problem; Conclusions; Chapter 7 Agency and Existence; I. Existence, non-existence, and agency
505 8 $a II. Kant's epistemological critique of existenceIII. Attempts to affirm existential claims; IV. Existential ontology and non-existence; V. Existence and agency; 1. Agency and emotions; 2. Reflexive actions; 3. Agency by contact or at a distance?; 4. Plans and habits; 5. The case of memory; VI. Ethical ramifications; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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