...Alfred R. Mele [email protected] Sartorio Carolina , Causalism: Unifying Action and Free Action . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2023 . viii + 126 pp. © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 This is a wonderful book. The writing is lucid and crisp...

...Todd Buras Gideon Yaffe, Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action . New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 167 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. x...

...) account of naive action explanation. Practical knowledge that I am pruning roses would simply be the ability to be guided (in my acts) by the fact that I am pruning roses . This would still leave questions about whether practical knowledge has a ground, and whether it is the cause of what it understands...

...Andrew Brook Wuerth Julian , Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xvi +349 pp. © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 As Wuerth himself makes clear in chapter 5, the last chapter of the first part of his big book, much of the value...

...Rachel Cohon The traditional interpretation of Hume's account of motives and his opposition to moral rationalism consists of four theses: (A) Only desires or similar conative states provide impulses to act. (B) Beliefs alone cannot initiate action, nor cause affective states that in turn move us...

...Brian Bruya [email protected] Valmisa Mercedes , Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action . New York : Oxford University Press , 2022 . 210 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 “Adapting” is Valmisa’s translation of the Chinese term yin   (to respond to) and other...

...Yitzhak Y. Melamed; Oded Schechter Michael Quante, Hegel's Concept of Action , trans. Dean Moyar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 199 pp. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Michael Quante, Hegel’s Concept of Action...

...Robert D. Rupert Clark Andy , Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension . New York : Oxford University Press , 2008 . xxix +286 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 References Noë Alva . 2004 . Action in Perception . Cambridge, MA...

...Jennifer Church Cornell University 2000 CONSCIOUSNESS IN ACTION. By S. L. Hurley. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 506. BOOK REVLEWS I would say it’s a safe bet that he conceived of the ideas and arguments he put forth...

...Carl Ginet Cornell University 2000 THE WORKS OF AGENCY: ON HUMAN ACTION, WILL, AND FREEDOM. By Hugh J. McCann. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 238. BOOK REVIEWS because of the way we are. This is somehow true even for DOORKNOB...

... of visuomotor action, on the other. This “dual visual systems” hypothesis, which finds many echoes in various other bodies of cognitive scientific research, poses a prima facie challenge to the Assumption of Experience-Based Control. More importantly, it provides (I shall argue) fuel for an alternative...

... Can We Do?” Journal of Philosophy 60 : 435 -445. Davidson, Donald. 1963 . “Actions, Reasons, and causes.” Journal of Philosophy 60 : 685 -700. Gibbard, Alan, and William Harper. 1978 . “Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Value.” In Foundations and Applications of Decision...

...Muhammad Ali Khalidi Cornell University 2001 DYNAMICS IN ACTION: INTENTIONAL BEHAVIOR AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM. By Alicia Juarrero. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. x, 288. BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical hinu,Vol. 110, No. 3 uuly 2001...

...Kieran Setiya Anscombe, G. E. M. 1963 . Intention . 2nd ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ____. 1983 . The Causation of Action. In Knowledge and Mind , ed. C. Ginet and S. Shoemaker, 174 -90. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ____. 1989 . Practical Inference. In Virtues and Reasons , ed...

...Tracy Isaacs David-Hillel Ruben, Action and Its Explanation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 240. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS functional in nature, and an argument that tokens of such property types could be physically realized...

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... . “Desire as Belief II.” Mind 105 : 303 -13. Reprinted in Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy, 55-67. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Marmor, Andrei. 2001 . Positive Law and Objective Values . Oxford: Clarendon. Mele, Alfred. 2004 . “Discussion—Velleman in Action and Agency...

...Martin Lin Cornell University 2006 Teleology and Human Action in Spinoza Martin Lin University of Toronto Spinoza enjoys a widespread reputation as the early modern philosopher who makes the most thoroughgoing and principled...

...John Robertson John Searle, Rationality in Action . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 298 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS John Searle, Rationality in Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 298 pp. This book...

...Mark Schroeder According to a naive view sometimes apparent in the writings of moral philosophers, 'ought' often expresses a relation between agents and actions —the relation that obtains between an agent and an action when that action is what that agent ought to do. It is not part of this naive...