Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199246262
Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays.
Author : John Shand
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0773530177
Author : Ernest LePore
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 1985-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780631161875
Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191519227
Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective is the long-awaited third volume of philosophical writings by Donald Davidson, whose influence on philosophy since the 1960s has been deep and broad. His first two collections, published by OUP in the early 1980s, are recognized as contemporary classics. Now Davidson presents a selection of his work on knowledge, mind, and language from the 1980s and the 1990s. We all have knowledge of our own minds, knowledge of the contents of other minds, and knowledge of the shared environment. Davidson examines the nature and status of each of these three sorts of knowledge, and the connections and differences among them. Along the way he has illuminating things to say about truth, human rationality, and the relations among language, thought, and the world. This new volume offers a rich and rewarding feast for anyone interested in philosophy today, and is essential reading for anyone working on its central topics.
Author : Simon J. Evnine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191085251
Simon J. Evnine explores the view (which he calls amorphic hylomorphism) that some objects have matter from which they are distinct but that this distinctness is not due to the existence of anything like a form. He draws on Aristotle's insight that such objects must be understood in terms of an account that links what they are essentially with how they come to exist and what their functions are (the coincidence of formal, final, and efficient causes). Artifacts are the most prominent kind of objects where these three features coincide, and Evnine develops a detailed account of the existence and identity conditions of artifacts, and the origins of their functions, in terms of how they come into existence. This process is, in general terms, that they are made out of their initial matter by an agent acting with the intention to make an object of the given kind. Evnine extends the account to organisms, where evolution accomplishes what is effected by intentional making in the case of artifacts, and to actions, which are seen as artifactual events.
Author : Jonathan D. Payton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108839797
"Negative actions (intentional omissions, refrainments, etc.) seem to be genuine actions. The standard metaphysical theories of action are event-based: they treat actions as events of a special kind. But it seems that many (and perhaps all) negative actions are, not events, but absences thereof. In this book, I provide a comprehensive treatment of this problem and its solution. I trace the appearance that negative actions are mere absences to the widely-assumed view that negative action sentences (sentences which describe an agent as omitting, refraining, etc.) are negative existentials, reporting the non-occurrence of an event of a certain kind. I argue, on the contrary, that such sentences report the occurrence of an event, not the absence of one. Moreover, I show how these events can be identified with ordinary, positive events of the sort we should already have in our ontology. In developing these views, I provide a comprehensive picture of the metaphysics of negative actions, the nature of our thought and talk about them, and their place in a theory of action and agency"--
Author : Pavlína Morganová
Publisher : Karolinum Press, Charles University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788024623177
This is the first ever in-depth interpretation of Czech Action Art as a vast and very original stream of Czech post-war art within the context of the region's complex socio-political history. Based on the author's more than decade-long research, her interviews with artists and interpretations of many of their performances and other actions, Czech Action Art also features a list of all Czech happenings, events, performances, body-art pieces, land-art related and other actions from the 1960s to 1989."--Page [4] of cover.
Author : Susan Douglas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1614510865
This book explores an understudied area of language development in autism – namely, how children with autism learn the meaning of verbs. The key feature is a profile of verb acquisition in autism derived from qualitative analysis of the conversational language of ten children with autism. Douglas examines whether this profile is typical or atypical compared with verb learning in neurotypical children. Verb use is central to linguistic development, and the ability of children with autism to develop and use verb categories is of interest, because verbs also encode information about the number and type of participants and the temporal location of the activity/event. Moreover, the acquisition of verb meanings is often dependent on other cognitive skills, such as the recognition that human beings have beliefs and desires which motivate their actions. All these are areas which are widely considered problematic for children with autism and continue to generate much discussion among researchers and clinicians. This investigation is among the first studies of its type, offering new insights into the process of language acquisition in autism.
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Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0857861018
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Author : Paul DuBois
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596001452
DuBois organizes his cookbook's recipes into sections on the problem, the solution stated simply, and the solution implemented in code and discussed. The implementation and discussion sections are the most valuable, as they contain the command sequences, code listings, and design explanations that can be transferred to outside projects.
