Kent Bach has argued that certain traditional problems of action theory (concerning the individuation of actions, their timing, their location, and the manner in which they enter into causal relations) arise only on the supposition that actions are events, and he has argued further that actions are not events. In this paper these arguments are examined and rejected
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Non-causal accounts of action explanation have long been criticized for lacking a positive thesis, r...
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Standard metaphysical theories of action assume that all actions are events. Such theories have trou...
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Contemporary literature in philosophy of action seems to be divided overthe place of action in the n...
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“What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?” (W...
Non-causal accounts of action explanation have long been criticized for lacking a positive thesis, r...
Donald Davidson assumed that actions are a subclass of events but Paul Grice claimed against him tha...
One of the central puzzles in the philosophy of action is how to provide a coherent account of agenc...
Standard metaphysical theories of action assume that all actions are events. Such theories have trou...
What makes an event count as an action? The standard answer to this question—causalism—claims that i...
Contemporary literature in philosophy of action seems to be divided overthe place of action in the n...
This thesis attempts to outline a causal theory of human action. This theory is intended to be a par...
Mainstream philosophy of action and mind construes intentional behaviour in terms of causal processe...
The event analysis of action sentences seems to be at odds with plausible (Davidsonian) views about ...
Many philosophers believe that the omission of an act or that the absence of a cause can be causally...
The central concern of this thesis is to begin to explicate the concepts of action and agency. I co...
What makes it the case that in (say) moving his finger, an agent acts, as opposed to merely being in...
We think less than we think. My thesis moves from this suspicion to show that standard accounts of i...
Book synopsis: David-Hillel Ruben's new book pursues some novel and unusual standpoints in the philo...
“What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?” (W...
Non-causal accounts of action explanation have long been criticized for lacking a positive thesis, r...
Donald Davidson assumed that actions are a subclass of events but Paul Grice claimed against him tha...