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Motivation and Agency
by Alfred R. Mele
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... In chapter 10, 1 ex- plore a phenomenon in which deciding has been claimed to have a central place, human action par excellence. Chapter 11 completes part IV-and this book-with a discussion of ... "
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Goal-Directed Action, The Motivational Power of Practical Reasoning, S's A-ing, Donald Davidson, Nicomachean Ethics, Treasury Department, positive motivational base, human action par excellence, human agency par excellence, proximal desire, momentary mental action, robust internalism
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Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency
by Nomy Arpaly
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... from what Mele says that he sees many accounts of what I have called `agent-autonomy' or `self-control' as accounts of human action par excellence, ... "
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Huckleberry Finn, Oliver Single, Madame Bovary, Michael Smith, Philosophical Ethics, Robert Harris, inverse akrasia, constitutive moral luck, human action par excellence, inadvertent virtue, normative autonomy, misguided conscience
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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy (Oxford Handbooks)
by Frank Jackson
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with references to "human action par excellence".
Excerpt - on Page 351: "
... of action and its explanation do not capture what `distinguishes human action from other animal behavior' and do not accommodate `human action par excellence' (1992: 462; cf. 2000, ch. 1). He also reports (2) that his objection ... "
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Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, New York, Clarendon Press, Harvard University Press, Philosophical Review, normative social choice theory, metasemantic theory, deep deliberative democracy, nomological entailment accounts, dominant sortal, minimal representationalism
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The Revolution of Everyday Life
by Raoul Vaneigem
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