1st Edition
Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe
Preface
Introduction Constantine Sandis
1. Agents, objects, and their powers in Suarez and Hobbes Thomas Pink
2. Human action and virtue in Descartes and Spinoza Noa Naaman-Zauderer
3. Action, knowledge and embodiment in Berkeley and Locke Tom Stoneham
4. Sympathetic action in the seventeenth century: human and natural Chris Meyns
5. Hume’s better argument for motivational scepticism Elizabeth S. Radcliffe and Richard McCarty
6. Kant and Hegel on purposive action Arto Laitinen, Erasmus Mayr and Constantine Sandis
7. Action, interaction and inaction: post-Kantian accounts of thinking, willing, and doing in Fichte and Schopenhauer Günter Zöller
8. Nietzsche’s account of self-conscious agency Paul Katsafanas
9. Before ethics: scientific accounts of action at the turn of the century Anna C. Zielinska
10. The touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events Giuseppina D’Oro
11. Remarks on the "thickness" of action description: with Wittgenstein, Ryle, and Anscombe Julia Tanney
Biography
Constantine Sandis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
"A number of the papers raise fascinating issues which contemporary philosophers of action may well benefit from engaging with."
- Lucy Campbell, University of Warwick, and Alexander Greenberg, University of Southampton, Metapsychology Online Reviews
