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Human beings are beings that act. But what are actions and what are reasons for action? Without assuming prior knowledge of the discipline, Ralf Stoecker uses these questions to present the essential topics of modern philosophy of action: reasons for action, rationality and irrationality, responsibility, and the difference between action and mere behavior. These topics have significant consequences for different areas of philosophy, particularly contemporary problems in applied ethics like the difference between killing and letting die or the limits of justified warfare.

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In der 1970 gegrundeten Reihe erscheinen Arbeiten, die philosophiehistorische Studien mit einem systematischen Ansatz oder systematische Studien mit philosophiehistorischen Rekonstruktionen verbinden. Neben deutschsprachigen werden auch englischsprachige Monographien veroffentlicht.

Grundungsherausgeber sind: Erhard Scheibe (Herausgeber bis 1991), Gunther Patzig (bis 1999) und Wolfgang Wieland (bis 2003). Von 1990 bis 2007 wurde die Reihe von Jurgen Mittelstra mitherausgegeben.

Through the whole history of mankind philosophers have taken pride in being reasonable agents. During the last decades Rudiger Bittner, one of the internationally best renown german philosophers and winner of the Gottlob Frege award 2011, has developed a surprisingly different picture: We are much more part than master of the universe. The articles in the volume address this challenging view, illuminating and discussing it from various angles of practical philosophy including the aesthetics of film and theatre.
Authors: Ansgar Beckermann (Bielefeld), Rudiger Bittner (Bielefeld),...