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The Things We Do and Why We Do Them

โœ Scribed by Constantine Sandis (auth.)


Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Leaves
247
Category
Library

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โœฆ 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

โœฆ Subjects


Epistemology; Personality and Social Psychology; Metaphysics; Analytic Philosophy


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