Davidson - Essays on Actions and Events [PDF]

Donald Davidson
Essays on Actions and Events
Second Edition
CLARENDON PRESS · OXFORD 2001


Contents
Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements ix
Preface to the Second Edition xiii
Introduction xv
Intention and Action 1
Essay 1. Actions, Reasons, and Causes (1963) 3
Essay 2. How is Weakness of the Will Possible? (1969) 21
Essay 3. Agency (1971) 43
Essay 4. Freedom to Act (1973) 63
Essay 5. Intending (1978) 83
Event and Cause 103
Essay 6. The Logical Form of Action Sentences (1967) 105
Criticism, Comment, and Defence 122
Essay 7. Causal Relations (1967) 149
Essay 8. The Individuation of Events (1969) 163
Essay 9. Events as Particulars (1970) 181
Essay 10. Eternal vs. Ephemeral Events (1971) 189
Philosophy of Psychology 205
Essay 11. Mental Events (1970) 207
Appendix: Emeroses by Other Names (1966) 225
Essay 12. Psychology as Philosophy (1974) 229
Comments and Replies 239
Essay 13. The Material Mind (1973) 245
Essay 14. Hempel on Explaining Action (1976) 261
Essay 15. Hume's Cognitive Theory of Pride (1976) 277
Appendices
A. Adverbs of Action (1985) 293
B. Reply to Quine on Events (1985) 305
Bibliographical


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