发表于2024-12-23
Essays on Actions and Events 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. In this seminal investigation of the nature of human action, Davidson argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Certain events are identified and explained as actions when they are viewed as caused and rationalized by reasons; these same events, when described in physical, biological, or physiological terms, may be explained by appeal to natural laws. The mental and the physical thus constitute irreducibly discrete ways of explaining and understanding events and their causal relations. Among the topics discussed are: 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. The introduction, cross-references, and appendices emphasize the relations between the essays and explain how Davidson's views have developed.
十二颗星。只读一两篇Davidson相当于一篇都没读。只读Davidson的action theory也相当于什么都没读。如果再给我一次机会,我会在刚接触所谓“分析哲学”的时候,把这些经典作家的书稍微系统读一读。以前总觉得,搞“分析”嘛,不需要systematic,结果就是我现在思考什么问题都极端superficial
评分Mental events
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评分主要读了Agency //He says, let there be light, while moving his hand, flipping the switch, turning on the light and illuminating the room. However, he presses the button thinking it will turn on the light, but in fact it fires a torpedo that sinks the Bismarck.
Essays on Actions and Events 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书