The Things We Do and Why We Do Them
โ Scribed by Constantine Sandis (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 247
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Objects and Objectives of Action Explanation....Pages 1-23
Conflation in Action....Pages 24-40
What Makes an Action Explanation Proper?....Pages 41-60
The Operation of Reasons....Pages 61-81
Nested Explanations....Pages 82-103
The Structure of Agential Explanation....Pages 104-120
Spheres of Explanation....Pages 121-141
Back Matter....Pages 142-226
โฆ Subjects
Epistemology; Personality and Social Psychology; Metaphysics; Analytic Philosophy
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