Action, Knowledge, and Will

by John Hyman

Book Overview

Human agency has four irreducibly different dimensions - psychological, ethical, intellectual, and physical - which the traditional idea of a will tended to conflate. Twentieth-century philosophers criticized the idea that acts are caused by 'willing' or 'volition', but the study of human action continued to be governed by a tendency to equate these dimensions of agency, or to reduce one to another. Cutting across the branches of philosophy, from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198735774
• ISBN13: 9780198735779
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"