A Companion to the Philosophy of Action

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Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University, USA) Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

A Companion to the Philosophy of Action

Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University, USA), Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

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English

John Wiley & Sons Inc
14 September 2012

Philosophy; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

A Companion to the Philosophy of Action offers a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems central to the philosophy of action.

The first volume to survey the entire field of philosophy of action (the central issues and processes relating to human actions)

Brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts

Discusses a range of ideas and doctrines, including rationality, free will and determinism, virtuous action, criminal responsibility, Attribution Theory, and rational agency in evolutionary perspective

Individual chapters also cover prominent historic figures from Plato to Ricoeur

Can be approached as a complete narrative, but also serves as a work of reference

Offers rich insights into an area of philosophical thought that has attracted thinkers since the time of the ancient Greeks

Edited by: Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University USA), Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 173mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.002kg
ISBN: 9781118346327
ISBN 10: 1118346327
Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Pages: 664
Publication Date: 14 September 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Timothy O'Connor is Professor and Department Chair of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, and a member of its Cognitive Sciences program. He has published extensively in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, and philosophy of religion. His books include Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will (ed. 1995), Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will (2000), Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings (ed. 2003), Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency (2008) and Downward Causation and the Necessity of Free Will (ed. 2010). Constantine Sandis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and New York University in London. He is the editor of New Essays on the Explanation of Action (2009) and Hegel on Action (with Arto Laitinen, 2010), and author of The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (2010).