Essays on Actions and Events, Volume 1Comprises a series of connected essays on the nature of human action, intention, practical reasoning, emotion and causality. |
Contents
Actions Reasons and Causes 1963 | 3 |
How is Weakness of the Will Possible? 1970 | 21 |
Essay 3 Agency 1971 | 43 |
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action sentences agency agent analysis anomalous monism argued argument Aristotle assume assumption attitudes behaviour beliefs and desires better Bloomsday Bologna Brutus causal conditional causal law causal relations cause Chisholm chooses claim concepts conclusion context course decision theory described entails entities Essay example existence explain fact G. E. M. Anscombe give Hempel Hume Hume's idea Identity Theory incontinence inference intentional action intentionally interpretation J. L. Austin Jones buttered Journal of Philosophy judgement language lawlike logical form logically equivalent meaning mental events n-tuples nomological object occurred Oedipus ontology particular events passion perform perhaps Philosophical physical events practical reasoning predicate pride primitive actions principle problem propositional propositional attitudes psychological quantificational question rational relevant Roderick Chisholm Sebastian strolled seems semantic sense simply singular causal statements singular terms someone sort streets of Bologna suggests suppose tences things tion true truth verbs wrong