Enigmas of Agency : Studies in the Philosophy of Human Action 9781317851424, 9780415296212

First published in 2002. This is Volume XVI of seventeen in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology series. Written in 197

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Enigmas of Agency : Studies in the Philosophy of Human Action
9781317851424, 9780415296212

And he contends that intention formation is an intrinsically ratiocinative procedure, distinct from reasoning about what

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The concept of action that requires philosophical analysis is one that concerns behavior characteristically found in hum

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at

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A study of the philosophical problems associated with the concept of action. Professor Danto is concerned to isolate log

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This book articulates an original scheme for the conceptualization of action. Beginning with a new approach to the indiv

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It is well known that Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, did not c

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The commentaries of Martin Heidegger on the lyric poems of German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin are an extraordinary

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What is self-control? Does a person need to be conscious to act? Are delusions always irrational? Questions such as thes

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