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Human Action and Its Explanation - A Study on the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
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Human Action and Its Explanation - A Study on the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
Series: Synthese Library, 116
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This book presents a unified and systematic philosophical account
of human actions and their explanation, and it does it in the
spirit of scientific realism. In addition, various other related
topics, such as psychological concept formation and the nature of
mental events and states, are dis cussed. This is due to the fact
that the key problems in the philosophy of psychology are
interconnected to a high degree. This interwovenness has affected
the discussion of these problems in that often the same topic is
discussed in several contexts in the book. I hope the reader does
not find this too frustrating. The theory of action developed in
this book, especially in its latter half, is a causalist one. In a
sense it can be regarded as an explication and refin ment of a
typical common sense view of actions and the mental episodes
causally responsible for them. It has, of course, not been possible
to discuss all the relevant philosophical problems in great detail,
even if I have regarded it as necessary to give a brief treatment
of relatively many problems. Rather, I have concentrated on some
key issues and hope that future research will help to clarify the
rest."
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