1st Edition
Time and the Philosophy of Action
1. Introduction Roman Altshuler and Michael Sigrist Part 1: The Metaphysics of Actions 2. Slip-Proof Actions Santiago Amaya 3. The Antinomy of Basic Action Kim Frost 4. Second Nature in Action and Perception Ben Wolfson 5. Making the Agent Reappear: How Processes Can Help Helen Steward Part 2: Diachronic Practical Rationality 6. "What on Earth Was I Thinking?" How Anticipating Plan’s End Places an Intention in Time Edward S. Hinchman 7. Pro-Tempore Disjunctive Intentions Luca Ferrero 8. Evaluative Commitments and Diachronic Agency Monika Betzler 9. Updating the Story of Mental Time Travel: Narrating and Engaging with Our Possible Pasts and Futures Daniel D. Hutto and Patrick McGivern Part 3: Deliberation, Motivation, and Agency 10. Time for Action J. David Velleman 11. Time and the ‘Antinomies’ of Deliberation John Drummond 12. Habituation and First-Person Authority Jonathan Webber 13. Timing Is Not Everything: The Intrinsic Temporality of Action Shaun Gallagher Part 4: Phenomenology and the Temporality of Agency 14. Care, Finitude and Time in Frankfurt and Heidegger B. Scot Rousse 15. Merleau-Ponty on the Temporality of Practical Dispositions David Ciavatta 16. Acts as Changes: A Metabolic Approach to the Philosophy of Action Micah Tillman 17. Hamlet and the Time of Action Henry Somers-Hall
Biography
Roman Altshuler is Assistant Professor at Kutztown University, USA
Michael J. Sigrist is Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University, USA
"As these diverse essays on action show, there are various ways … to construe the role of time in action, what the editors like to call "the temporality of action." There are some very good essays here that make serious contributions to philosophy of action."—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
