Donald Davidson is among the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. This volume includes some 30 essays which variously criticize, comment on and develop Davidson's philosophy as represented in his collected papers "Essays on Actions and Events", in addition to three further essays by Davidson himself. The essays divide into three sections, each opening with an editorial introduction and corresponding to the three major sections of "Actions and Events". The first section discusses the nature of rational explanation, the relationships between reasons and actions, intentions and actions, will and irrationality, and the concepts of agency, freedom and weakness of the will. This section also contains an essay in which Davidson presents his views on self-deception. The second section considers the nature of events, causal relationships, and the logical form of action and singular causal statements. Finally, the volume looks at the relationship between the mental and the physical, the scientific status of psychological and psychophysical laws, and the relationship between laws and causal and rational explanations.
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Well, it looks like I just bought the last copy of this book available anywhere :-) So why bother reviewing it?Its true that this book is mostly of historical interest now. It is basically the proceedings of a conference held in 1985 on Donald Davidson's theories of, (surprise, surprise) actions and events. The debates are long over; the arguments are stale, for the most part... ...but for the true connoseur, there's some gems to be found here. One of the last rounds of conversation between Quine and Davidson on the ontology of events is recorded here. Terrence Parsons has a nice paper which is basically a precis of this book "Events in the Semantics of English". If you are wondering what it takes to transform a philosophy department into one of the top 5 philosophy departments in the world, understanding this book and the social phenomena behind it is a good place to start. LePore and McLaughlin organized the conference, which attracted the coolest people in philosophy to have one of the coolest conversations--we're still having that conversation, 25 years on.
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