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Essays on Actions and Events
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 practica...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
December 6th 2001
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published 1980)
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Donald Davidsons work probably consists many great thoughts, nevertheless I never managed to get to them. The main cause of this is his style of writing and how he develop his points. His thoughts and works are great for all who love to read analytic philosophy, but unfortunately, I don't.
Analytic philosophy irritates me for his 'overfixation' on logic and correct reasoning. Not that that is a bad thing, but by doing so, according to me, they lose grip on reality and the context of the subject....more
Analytic philosophy irritates me for his 'overfixation' on logic and correct reasoning. Not that that is a bad thing, but by doing so, according to me, they lose grip on reality and the context of the subject....more
been going through this book this summer and I have come to realize many things about davidson that i did not in the past, perhaps the most important is, the extant that he is a quinian, yet the more i come to know davidson the less i like his philosophy
Who thought it would be a good idea to have Davidson look like a ghost on the cover of this and the four other volumes? He's the most frightening on Problems of Rationality.
Hard to argue against...
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Donald Davidson was one of the most important philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. His ideas, presented in a series of essays from the 1960's onwards, have been influential across a range of areas from semantic theory through to epistemology and ethics. Davidson's work exhibits a breadth of approach, as well as a unitary and systematic character, which is unusual within twenti...more
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