Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson

by Jonathan Kramnick

Book Overview

How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person's hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make a promise? In Actions and Objects, Jonathan Kramnick examines the literature and philosophy of action during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when philosophers and novelists, poets and scientists were all concerned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804770522
• ISBN13: 9780804770521
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"