How We ACT: Causes, Reasons, and Intentions

ISBN-13: 9780199204182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 266 str.

Berent En C.; Berent Enc

Opis

Talking about action comes easily to us. We quickly make distinctions between voluntary and non-voluntary actions; we think we can tell what intentions are; we are confident about evaluating reasons offered in rational justification of action. Berent Enc provides a philosopher's sustained examination of these issues: he portrays action as belonging to the causal order of events in nature, a theory from which new and surprising accounts of intention and voluntary action emerge. Philosophers and cognitive scientists alike will find How We Act a provocative and enlightening read.
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Recenzje

Review from previous edition A significant contribution to action theory, and, in particular, a naturalist understanding of agency. Anyone who wishes to assess the virtues and limitations of a causal theory of action, whatever his or her sympathies, will profit from giving this book an attentive reading.

O autorze

Berent Enç was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until his death in January 2003.