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Action's Causal History
Action’s Causal History
Agent's Ancestors
Agent’s Ancestors
Alfred Mele
analytic philosophy
Ann's Reply
Ann’s Reply
anti-causalism
Aviezer Tucker
Belief Desire Pairs
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causal concepts
causal mechanisms
causalism
Constanine Sandis
counterfactual causality
counterfactual reasoning
Daniel Little
Davidson's Challenge
Davidson's Objection
Davidson’s Challenge
Davidson’s Objection
Deductive Nomological
Deductive Nomological Explanations
Deductive Nomological Model
Deviant Causal Chains
Dispositional Explanation
Doris Gerber
Epistemic Competence
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error
Eva Schmidt
explanation
explanation of human behavior
George F. Schueler
Giuseppina D'Oro
Giuseppina D’Oro
Guido Lohrer
Gunnar Schumann
Hans-Johann Glock
Harold Kincaid
historical explanation
historical methodology
Ideal Chronicle
Logical Connection Argument
Motivating Reason
Non-basic Actions
Normative Reason
objectivism
Oliver R. Scholz
philosophy of action
philosophy of historiography
philosophy of science
philosophy of social sciences
Practical Syllogism
Primary Deviance
rationalizing principles
reasons for action
Revealed Preference Approach
Revealed Preference Theory
Scott R. Sehon
Severin Schroeder
Singular Causal Relation
social sciences theory
Teleological Explanation
teleology
Thomas Keutner
Vice Versa
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9781032177953
  • Weight: 381g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Sep 2021
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic philosophy of action, it also has implications for questions about the differences between methods of explanation in the sciences on the one hand and in the humanities and the social sciences on the other. Additionally, this question bears on the problem of the appropriate form of explanations of past human actions, and therefore it is prominently discussed by analytic philosophers of historiography. This volume brings together causalists and anti-causalists to address enduring philosophical questions at the heart of this debate, as well as their implications for the practice of historiography. Part I considers the quarrel between causalism and anti-causalism in recent developments in the philosophy of action. Part II presents papers by causalists and anti-causalists that are more narrowly focused on the philosophy of historiography.
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Gunnar Schumann is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany