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The Metaphysics of Action = Trying, Doing, Causing /

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Title/Author:	The Metaphysics of Action/ by David-Hillel Ruben.
Reminder of title:	Trying, Doing, Causing /
Author:	Ruben, David-Hillel.
Description:	X, 351 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Metaphysics. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90347-7
ISBN:	9783319903477

The Metaphysics of Action = Trying, Doing, Causing /
Ruben, David-Hillel.

The Metaphysics of ActionTrying, Doing, Causing /[electronic resource] :by David-Hillel Ruben. - 1st ed. 2018. - X, 351 p.online resource.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Physical Action Theory of Trying -- 3. Trying in Some Way -- 4. A Conditional Theory of Trying -- 5. Causing and Doing -- 6. Doing and Causing -- 7. Causing in Some Way -- 8. Regress Issues and Action Scepticism. .

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one’s action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical act but can be explained using conditionals; that action is not the same as causing something to happen; and in the case of a special but important subset of actions, for example the opening of a window, the action is identical to the event of the window’s opening. A result of this last account is that it places actions out in the world, sometimes far removed in time and space from the actor’s body. The world is full of action; actions do not just exist in the many little islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the final chapter, Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge to the idea that we can ever know whether or not someone else has acted, rather than just passive events having happened to that person. .

ISBN: 9783319903477

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-90347-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

555859
Metaphysics.

LC Class. No.: BD95-131

Dewey Class. No.: 110

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