Essays on Actions and Events

by 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.
  • ISBN10 0191529826
  • ISBN13 9780191529825
  • Publish Date December 2001 (first published November 1980)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Imprint Clarendon Press
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 347
  • Language English