The Metaphysics of Action Trying, Doing, Causing /

• Main Author: Ruben, David-Hillel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Metaphysics.; Epistemology.; Philosophy of mind.; Ontology.; Philosophy of Mind.

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one's action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Physical Action Theory of Trying
• 3. Trying in Some Way
• 4. A Conditional Theory of Trying
• 5. Causing and Doing
• 6. Doing and Causing
• 7. Causing in Some Way
• 8. Regress Issues and Action Scepticism. .