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These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues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.

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.

Concepts in Thought, Action, and Emotion

Concepts in Thought, Action, and Emotion
Author: Christoph Demmerling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-12
Genre: Concepts
ISBN: 9781138316089

In recent years, the idea of a concept has become increasingly central to different areas of philosophy. This collection of original essays presents philosophical perspectives on the link between concepts and language, concepts and experience, concepts and know-how, and concepts and emotion. The essays span a variety of interrelated philosophical domains ranging from epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and the philosophy of emotions. Among the central questions addressed by the contributors are: What are concepts? What is nonconceptual content? Does perceptual experience have conceptual content? Is conceptual thought language dependent? How do we form new concepts? Does practical knowledge have propositional content? Is practical understanding conceptual (without being propositional)? Do emotions have a representational content and if so, is the representational content conceptual? Concepts in Thought, Action, and Emotion advances current debates about concepts and will interest scholars across a broad range of philosophical disciplines.

Practical Thought

Practical Thought
Author: Jonathan Dancy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2021
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198865600

Practical Thought: Essays on Reasons, Intuition, and Action presents a selection of Jonathan Dancy's most important philosophical essays since the late 1970s, focusing on the central themes of his work: metaethics, moral metaphysics, the theory of motivation, and the British Intuitionists. The twenty-four essays in this book chart his intellectual journey.

Virtues in Action

Virtues in Action
Author: M. Austin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137280298

In recent decades, many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory. Much less attention has been given to how such an approach bears on issues in applied ethics. The essays in this volume apply a virtue-centered perspective to a variety of contemporary moral issues, and in so doing offer a fresh and illuminating perspective. Some of the essays focus on a particular virtue and its application to one or more realms of applied ethics, such as temperance and sex or humility and environmental ethics. Other chapters focus on an issue in applied ethics and bring several virtues into a discussion of that issue or realm of life, such as sport, education, and business. Finally, several of the chapters engage relevant psychological research as well as current neuroscience, which enhances the strength of the philosophical arguments.

From Individual to Collective Intentionality

From Individual to Collective Intentionality
Author: Sara Rachel Chant
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199936501

Acting together requires collective intentions. The contributions to this volume seek to critically assess or to enrich theories of collective intentionality by exploring topics such as collective belief, mutual coordination, and the explanation of group behavior.

Virtue’s Reasons

Virtue’s Reasons
Author: Noell Birondo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 131531424X

This collection sheds light on precisely how virtues and reasons are related to each other and what can be learned by exploring this relationship. The first section analyzes how the virtues may be related to, or linked with, normative reasons in ways that improve our understanding of what constitutes virtuous character and ethical agency. The second section explores the reasons moral agents have for cultivating the virtues of character and how the virtues impact moral responsiveness or development. The final section examines how reasons can be employed in understanding the nature of virtue, and how specific virtues, like modesty and practical wisdom, interact with reasons.

Being Reduced

Being Reduced
Author: Jakob Hohwy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199211531

Is the mind nothing but neural firings in the brain? Are we just a bunch of neurons? If the mind is just the brain, then how can we act as genuine, responsible agents in the world? Being Reduced attempts to understand these questions.

Practical Conflicts

Practical Conflicts
Author: Peter Baumann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2004-01-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521012102

In this collection a distinguished roster of philosophers analyse the diverse forms of practical conflict.

Plural Action

Plural Action
Author: Hans Bernhard Schmid
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-05-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9048124379

Collective Intentionality is a relatively new label for a basic social fact: the sharing of attitudes such as intentions, beliefs and emotions. This volume contributes to current research on collective intentionality by pursuing three aims. First, some of the main conceptual problems in the received literature are introduced, and a number of new insights into basic questions in the philosophy of collective intentionality are developed (part 1). Second, examples are given for the use of the analysis of collective intentionality in the theory and philosophy of the social sciences (part 2). Third, it is shown that this line of research opens up new perspectives on classical topics in the history of social philosophy and social science, and that, conversely, an inquiry into the history of ideas can lead to further refinement of our conceptual tools in the analysis of collective intentionality (part 3).