Agents and their actions /

• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: De Gaynesford, Maximilian
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Series: Ratio book series.
• Subjects: Act (Philosophy); Agent (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.; Electronic books.; Electronic resource.

"Reflecting a recent flourishing of creative thinking in the field, Actions and Their Agents presents seven newly commissioned essays by leading international philosophers that highlight the most recent debates in the philosophy of action Features seven internationally significant authors, incl...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Reasons for Action and Practical Reasoning / Maria Alvarez
• Ambivalence and Authentic Agency / Laura W Ekstrom
• The Road to Larissa / John Hyman
• What is the Content of an Intention in Action? / John McDowell
• Being in the World / Joseph Raz
• Moral Scepticism and Agency: Kant and Korsgaard / Robert Stern
• Speech, Action and Uptake / Maximilian de Gaynesford
• Index.