Essays on Actions and Events

Philosophical Essays Volume 1

Donald Davidson (, University of California, Berkeley)

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Oxford University Press
01 October 2001

Philosophy of language; Philosophy; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy of mind

Series: The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes)

This book is intended for all philosophers; psychologists and linguists interested in philosophy; anyone else interested in mind and action.

By: Donald Davidson ( University of California Berkeley)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 5 volumes
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199246267
ISBN 10: 0199246262
Series: The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes)
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 01 October 2001
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgments Introduction Intention and Action1: Actions, Reasons, and Causes (1963) 2: How is Weakness of the Will Possible? (1969) 3: Agency (1971) 4: Freedom to Act (1973) 5: Intending (1978) Event and Cause6: The Logical Form of Action Sentences (1967) Criticism, Comment, and Defence 7: Causal Relations (1967) 8: The Individuation of Events (1969) 9: Events as Particulars (1970) 10: Eternal vs. Ephemeral Events (1971) Philosophy of Psychology11: Mental Events (1970) Appendix: Emeroses by Other Names (1966) 12: Psychology as Philosophy (1974) Comments and Replies 13: The Material Mind (1973) 14: Hempel on Explaining Action (1976) 15: Hume's Cognitive Theory of Pride (1976) Appendix A: Adverbs of Action (1985) Appendix B: Reply to Quine on Events (1985) Index, Bibliography

Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.