An Essay on Human Action
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An Essay on Human Action seeks to provide a comprehensive, detailed, enlightening, and (in its detail) original account of human action. This account presupposes a theory of events as abstract, proposition-like entities, a theory which is given in the first chapter of the book. The core-issues of action-theory are then treated: what acting in general is (a version of the traditional volitional theory is proposed and defended); how actions are to be individuated; how long actions last; what acting intentionally is; what doing one thing by doing another is; what basic action is; and what omitting to do something is. Attention is also given to the concepts of causation, intention, volition, deciding, choosing, and trying. Finally, a libertarian account of free action is tentatively proposed and defended.
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Michael J. Zimmerman
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«I found a number of agreeable and instructive things in this book. For instance, Zimmerman's handling of wayward causal chains in defining intentional action is an advance over anything else I've seen in the literature. His system addresses most of the currently live questions in action theory. It is constructed with considerable care and subtlety. The writing is generally admirably clear.» (Carl Ginet, The Philosophical Review)
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