Action and existence

a case for agent causation

James Swindal

Palgrave Macmillan

2012

Abstract

Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained.

Cited authors

Davidson Donald