Essays on Actions and Events (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson)

Essays on Actions and Events (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson)
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Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic

Essays on Actions and Events

(1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory.

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