Causing Actions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199252763)

Paul Pietroski presents an original philosophical theory of actions and their mental causes. We often act for reasons, deliberating and choosing among options, based on our beliefs and desires. But because bodily motions always have biochemical causes, it can seem that thinking and acting are biochemical processes. Pietroski argues that thoughts and deeds are in fact distinct from, though dependent on, underlying biochemical processes within persons.

Author: Paul M. Pietroski
ISBN-10: 0199252769
ISBN-13: 9780199252763
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/21/2002
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.28w x 0.62d