Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. In this seminal investigation of the nature of human action, Davidson argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Certain events are identified and explained as actions when they are viewed as caused and rationalized by reasons; these same events, when described in physical, biological, or physiological terms, may be explained by appeal to natural laws. The mental and the physical thus constitute irreducibly discrete ways of explaining and understanding events and their causal relations. Among the topics discussed are: freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory. The introduction, cross-references, and appendices emphasize the relations between the essays and explain how Davidson's views have developed.
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十二颗星。只读一两篇Davidson相当于一篇都没读。只读Davidson的action theory也相当于什么都没读。如果再给我一次机会，我会在刚接触所谓“分析哲学”的时候，把这些经典作家的书稍微系统读一读。以前总觉得，搞“分析”嘛，不需要systematic，结果就是我现在思考什么问题都极端superficial
评分十二颗星。只读一两篇Davidson相当于一篇都没读。只读Davidson的action theory也相当于什么都没读。如果再给我一次机会，我会在刚接触所谓“分析哲学”的时候，把这些经典作家的书稍微系统读一读。以前总觉得，搞“分析”嘛，不需要systematic，结果就是我现在思考什么问题都极端superficial
评分reason as cause... 他对the mental 与physical的区分仅限于语义上的理解还是不让人满意，但如果说这两者是本体论的，则似乎需要讨论作为mental的reason如何可能成为cause... 背后仍然涉及到naturalize reason的争论，keep thinking...
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