Action, Knowledge, and Will

AvJohn Hyman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Human agency has four irreducibly different dimensions -- psychological, ethical, intellectual, and physical -- which the traditional idea of a will tended to conflate. Twentieth-century philosophers criticized the idea that acts are caused by 'willing' or 'volition', but the study of human action continued to be governed by a tendency to equate these dimensions of agency, or to reduce one to another. Cutting across the branches of philosophy, from logic and epistemology to ethics and jurisprudence, Action, Knowledge, and Will defends comprehensive theories of action and knowledge, and shows how thinking about agency in four dimensions deepens our understanding of human conduct and its causes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-14
Mått:162 x 240 x 28 mm
Vikt:562 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198735779

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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John Hyman is a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, Professor of Aesthetics in the University of Oxford, and Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. He held a Getty Scholarship at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, in 2001-2002, a Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2002-2003, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2010-2012.

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Action, Knowledge, and Will is a splendid book--insightful, original, elegantly written and carefully edited, and a genuine pleasure to read. John Hyman weaves strands of historical, legal, empirical, and conceptual analysis into a series of arguments that are fresh and exciting at every turn.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface ; 1. Agency and the Will ; 2. Action and Integration ; 3. Acts and Events ; 4. Voluntariness and Choice ; 5. Desire and Intention ; 6. Reason and Knowledge ; 7. Knowledge as an Ability ; 8. The Road to Larissa ; Appendix: The Modern Theory of the Will ; Endnotes ; Bibliography ; Acknowledgements ; Index