Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals)

Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Ted Honderich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-06-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317516133

Essays on Freedom of Action, first published in 1973, brings together original papers by contemporary British and American philosophers on questions which have long concerned philosophers and others: the question of whether persons are wholly a part of the natural world and their actions the necessary effects of causal processes, and the question of whether our actions are free, and such that we can be held responsible for them, even if they are the necessary effects of casual processes. This volume will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy but also to students in those many other disciplines in which freedom and determinism arise as problems.

Essays on Freedom of Action

Essays on Freedom of Action
Author: Ted Honderich
Publisher: Routledge/Thoemms Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Free will and determinism
ISBN: 9780710088833

From Action to Ethics

From Action to Ethics
Author: Constantine Sandis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2024-01-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 135023513X

Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought. In this collection of his best essays in the philosophy of action, Sandis brings together updated versions of his writings, accompanied by a new introduction. Read collectively they demonstrate the breadth of his interests and ability to relate to broader issues within the culture, connecting debates in philosophical psychology about motivation, negligence, and moral responsibility with Greek tragedy, social psychology and literature. Along this path from action to ethics, Sandis engages with Hegel, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Ricoeur, Davidson, and Dretske, together with contemporary authors such as Jennifer Hornsby and Jonathan Dancy. As he responds to each thinker and theme, he develops his own philosophical position, the key thesis of which is that philosophy of action without ethics is empty, ethics without philosophy of action is blind.

Essays on Actions and Events

Essays on Actions and Events
Author: Donald Davidson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2001-09-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199246262

Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays.

On Liberty

On Liberty
Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536930368

In his much quoted, seminal work, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality which he conceived as a prerequisite to the higher pleasures-the summum bonum of Utilitarianism. Published in 1859, On Liberty presents one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom and is perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support of the value of liberty.

New Essays on the Explanation of Action

New Essays on the Explanation of Action
Author: C. Sandis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2008-11-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230582974

These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.