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New Essays on the Explanation of Action

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 What Must Actions Be for Reasons to Explain Them?
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    Chapter 3 What Are Reasons for Action?
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    Chapter 4 Was Sally’s Reason for Running from the Bear that She Thought it was Chasing Her?
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    Chapter 5 Con-reasons as Causes
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    Chapter 6 Agential Reasons and the Explanation of Human Behaviour
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    Chapter 7 Reasons as Non-causal, Context-placing Explanations
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    Chapter 8 Interpretative Explanations
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    Chapter 9 Anscombe on Expression of Intention
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    Chapter 10 Can One Act for a Reason without Acting Intentionally?
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    Chapter 11 Reasons: Explanatory and Normative
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    Chapter 12 Reasons, Desires and Intentional Actions
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    Chapter 13 A Niggle at Nagel: Causally Active Desires and the Explanation of Action
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    Chapter 14 Acting in Character
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    Chapter 15 Aquinas on Action and Action Explanation
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    Chapter 16 Acting for Reasons — A Grass Root Approach
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    Chapter 17 Sub-intentional Actions and the Over-mentalization of Agency
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    Chapter 18 Determinism, Intentional Action, and Bodily Movements
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    Chapter 19 Free Agency, Causation and Action Explanation
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    Chapter 20 Gods and Mental States: The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind
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    Chapter 21 Aristotle’s Conception of Practical Thinking
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    Chapter 22 Action in Moral Metaphysics
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    Chapter 23 Non-cognitivism and Motivation
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Title
New Essays on the Explanation of Action
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan UK, January 2009
DOI 10.1057/9780230582972
ISBNs
978-1-349-35668-3, 978-0-230-58297-2
Editors

Constantine Sandis

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
India 1 3%
Unknown 37 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 21%
Researcher 8 21%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 13%
Student > Master 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 2 5%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 8 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 22 56%
Computer Science 2 5%
Psychology 2 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 8 21%