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The Metaphysics of Action - Trying, Doing, Causing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Metaphysics of Action - Trying, Doing, Causing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas
in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and
one's action causing further consequences. In all three cases,
novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not
a particular mental or physical act but can be explained using
conditionals; that action is not the same as causing something to
happen; and in the case of a special but important subset of
actions, for example the opening of a window, the action is
identical to the event of the window's opening. A result of this
last account is that it places actions out in the world, sometimes
far removed in time and space from the actor's body. The world is
full of action; actions do not just exist in the many little
islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the
final chapter, Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge
to the idea that we can ever know whether or not someone else has
acted, rather than just passive events having happened to that
person.
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