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Auteur(s) : Hyman, John (1960-....)
Titre(s) : Action, knowledge, and will [Texte imprimé] / John Hyman
Publication : Oxford ; New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-255 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : Agency and the will ; Action and integration ; Acts and events ; Voluntariness
and choice ; Desire and intention ; Reason and knowledge ; Knowledge as an ability
; The road to Larissa ; Appendix: The modern theory of the will.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 236-246. Index
What is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves,
such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements
we do not cause personally, such as the contraction of the heart? Is an act that is
done under duress done voluntarily, out of choice? Should duress exculpate a defendant
completely, or should it merely mitigate the criminality of an act? When we explain
an intentional act by stating our reasons for doing it, do we explain it causally
or teleologically, or both? Should we care whether our choices are guided by knowledge
or mere true belief? In this book, John Hyman explores these and other central problems
in the philosophy of action and the theory of knowledge, and connects these areas
of enquiry in a new way. The main premise of the book is that human action has four
irreducibly different dimensions, each with its own family of concepts: - a physical
dimension, in which the principal concepts are those of agent, power, and causation;
a psychological dimension, with the concepts of desire, aim, and intention; an ethical
dimension, with the concepts of voluntariness and choice; an intellectual dimension,
with the concepts of reason, knowledge, and belief. Studying each of these dimensions
of human action separately yields a string of original results, culminating in a new
analysis of the relationship between knowledge and rational behaviour, which provides
the foundation for a new theory of knowledge itself
Sujet(s) : Philosophie de l'action
Philosophie de l'esprit
Théorie de la connaissance
Volonté
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198735779. - ISBN 0198735774. - ISBN 9780198769316. - ISBN 0198769318
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45287871k
Notice n° :
FRBNF45287871
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