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Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the freedom to act; weakness of the will; thelogical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Davidson, Donald.
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199246274
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Reference, Philosophy, Anthropology
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (65 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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