The primacy of the mental in the explanation of human action

Disputatio

Volumn 3, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 73-88

  Buckareff, Andrei A ^a   Zhu, Jing ^b  

^a MARIST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Action theory; Folk psychology; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of psychology; Reason explanations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889033042     PISSN: 0873626X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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