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Das Buch beleuchtet den Begriff der Handlung in drei unterschiedlichen Kontexten: im Kontext der Rechtfertigung von Handlungen, der Lebensgeschichte von Personen und des Pragmatismus. Eine solche umfassende Betrachtung, die eine Abkehr von der atomisti
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
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2012. ©2007 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Das Buch beleuchtet den Begriff der Handlung in drei unterschiedlichen Kontexten: im Kontext der Rechtfertigung von Handlungen, der Lebensgeschichte von Personen und des Pragmatismus. Eine solche umfassende Betrachtung, die eine Abkehr von der atomisti The book illustrates the concept of action in three different contexts - the justification of actions, people s life history, and pragmatism. Because of its comprehensive view, this volume marks a departure from the atomistic approach of action theory. This in itself raises a number of questions, which the ten contributors to this volume deal with in an instructive manner. |
| Item Description: | Includes indexes. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vi, 392 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783110898798 |
| Index Number: | B105 |
| CLC: | B017 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Through Contexts to Actions -- Thought and Action -- I. Acting for Reasons -- Reasons for Action and Psychological States -- Reasons for Action without Metaphysics? -- The Causalist/Anti-causalist Debate in the Theory of Action: What It Is and Why It Matters -- In Defence of Causalism -- Two Ways to Understand Causality in Agency -- On the Importance of Reconciling Two Models of Causality in Agency -- Actions, Habits, and Practices -- The Reach of Habit -- II. Action, Persons and Life -- What Good is a Will? -- On the Ways and Uses of Intending: Lessons from Velleman s Bratman Critique -- Personal Identity and Agency: Towards Analytical Personalism -- Looking for the Real Enemy -- The Units of Living -- Making Sense of Ourselves -- III. Action and Epistemology -- Knowledge in Action -- A Seeming Solution to a Seeming Puzzle in Explaining Action -- Cognition and Action -- Notes on Distinctions -- Action and Inquiry -- Knowledgeable Inquiry -- Name Index -- Subject Index |