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Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe (Paperback)
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Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe (Paperback)
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Accounts of human and animal action have been central to modern
philosophy from Suarez and Hobbes in the sixteenth century to
Wittgenstein and Anscombe in the mid-twentieth century via Locke,
Hume, Kant, and Hegel, among many others. Philosophies of action
have thus greatly influenced the course of both moral philosophy
and the philosophy of mind. This book gathers together specialists
from both the philosophy of action and the history of philosophy
with the aim of re-assessing the wider philosophical impact of
action theory. It thereby explores how different notions of action,
agency, reasons for action, motives, intention, purpose, and
volition have affected modern philosophical understandings of
topics as diverse as those of human nature, mental causation,
responsibility, free will, moral motivation, rationality,
normativity, choice and decision theory, criminal liability,
weakness of will, and moral and social obligation. In so doing, it
reinterprets the history of modern philosophy through the lens of
action theory while also tracing the origins of contemporary
questions in the philosophy of action back across half a
millennium. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Philosophical Explorations.
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