Essays on Actions and Events (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199246274)

Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory.

Author: Donald Davidson
ISBN-10: 0199246270
ISBN-13: 9780199246274
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2001
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.48w x 0.74d