Habitual Actions

A Companion to the Philosophy of Action

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 74-81

  Pollard, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Awareness, the agent may have had of sensations that accompanied the actions at the acquisition stage fade; Habit friendly tradition tradition starting with Aristotle, in book 2 of the Nicomachean Ethics; Habits in current philosophy of action habitual actions not fitting comfortably into contemporary philosophical conceptions; Habitual actions; Habitual actions when mentioned pushed to the margins of human action; Philosophy of habit benefits and challenges; Place of habit in human life much of what we human beings do being habitual; Skepticism about habitual actions and their distinctiveness symptomatic of a philosophy of action

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EID: 84885981812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444323528.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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