How We ACT: Causes, Reasons, and Intentions

By Berent Enç

Book Overview

Talking about action comes easily to us. We quickly make distinctions between voluntary and non-voluntary actions; we think we can tell what intentions are; we are confident about evaluating reasons offered in rational justification of action. Berent En provides a philosopher's sustained examination of these issues: he portrays action as belonging to the causal order of events in nature, a theory from which new and surprising accounts of intention and voluntary action emerge. Philosophers and cognitive scientists alike will find How We Act a provocative and enlightening read.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199256020
• ISBN13: 9780199256020
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.9"