Action and Existence A Case For Agent Causation [Hardcover]

Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained.Introduction: Action, Thought, Pragmatism Neo-Pragmatism and its Critics Methodology: Reconstructive Dialectics A History of Action Theory Defining Actions The Explanation of Action A Material Explication of Agency Agency and Existence Bibliography EndnotesJAMES SWINDAL is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, USA. He is author of Reflection Revisited: J?rgen Habermas's Discursive Theory of Truth and has published on topics in critical theory, neo-pragmatism, ethics, and Catholic philosophy.