Intention and Practical Thought - Softcover

Preyer, Gerhard

 
9783941743090: Intention and Practical Thought
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3941743090 ISBN 13: 9783941743090
Verlag: Humanities Online, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The philosophical questions about action concern it’s nature, it’s description and it’s explanation. The leading questions are "What a theory of action is possible?", "Are reasons causes?", "What are practical thoughts?" and "What is the formal logic of practical inference?" Gerhard Preyer offers new answers of some old question about the description and the explanation of action and the logical structure of deliberation or practical reasoning which results from the theory of action since the 1950s years. It is argued that a theory of agent can provide an alternative to any theory postulating actions as irreducible entities metaphysically. The author’s account presents intention as states irreducible to beliefs and desires. The analysis places also a requirement on a fruitful description of the mind-body problem.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gerhard Preyer is Professor of Sociology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Among his publications are Donald Davidson’s Philosophy. From Radical Interpretation to Radical Contextualism and Interpretation; Language and the Social. Philosophical Articles. He edits ProtoSociology. An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (www.protosociology.de)

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Verlag
Humanities Online
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3941743090
ISBN 13 
9783941743090
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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