The causalist/anti-causalist debate in the theory of action: What it is and why it matters

Action in Context

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 103-123

  Alvarez, Maria ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952753632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1515/9783110898798     Document Type: Chapter

References (24)

1. Alvarez, Maria (forthcoming, 2008): "Motivating Reasons and the Explanation of Action", in: Philosophical Explorations 11.
2. Anscombe, Elizabeth (1957): Intention, Oxford: Blackwell.
3. Aristotle (1984): The Complete Works of Aristotle. The Revised Oxford Translation, Barnes, Jonathan (ed.), Princeton: Princeton University Press.
4. Bittner, Rüdiger (2001): Doing Things for Reasons, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Collins, Arthur (1987): The Nature of Mental Things, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
6. Crane, Tim/Mellor, David H. (1990): "There is No Question of Physicalism", in: Mind 99, 185-206.
7. Dancy, Jonathan (2000): Practical Reality, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
8. Davidson, Donald (1963): "Actions, Reasons, and Causes", reprinted in: Davidson, Donald (1980): Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
9. Evnine, Simon (1991): Donald Davidson, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
10. Hacker, Peter (1990): Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind. An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 3, Oxford: Blackwell.
11. Heil, John/Mele, Alfred (eds.) (1993): Mental Causation, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
12. Hornsby, Jennifer (1997): Simple Mindedness, Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press.
13. Hutto, Dan (1999): "A Cause for Concern: Reasons, Causes and Explanations", in: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59, 381-40.
14. Mele, Alfred (2003): Motivation and Agency, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Schueler, George (2003): Reasons and Purposes: Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
15. Schueler, George (2003): Reasons and Purposes: Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
16. Sehon, Scott (1994): "Teleology and the Nature of Mental States", in: American Philosophical Quarterly 31, 63-72.
17. Sehon, Scott (1997): "Deviant Causal Chains and the Irreducibility of Teleological Explanation", in: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 78, 195-213.
18. Sehon, Scott (2000): "An Argument Against the Causal Theory of Action", in: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60, 67-85.
19. Steward, Helen (1997): The Ontology of Mind: Events Processes and States, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
20. Stout, Rowland (1996): Things that Happen Because they Should, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
21. Stoutland, Frederick (1998): "The Real Reasons", in: Bransen, Jan/Cuypers, Stefaan (eds.): Human Action, Deliberation and Causation, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
22. Stoutland, Frederick (2001): "Responsive Action and the Belief-Desire Model", in: Grazer Phi-losophische Studien 61, 83-106.
23. Strawson, Peter (1992): Analysis and Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
24. Wilson, George (1989): The Intentionality of Human Action, Stanford: Stanford University Press.