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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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GR-AtICH |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20170523093338.0 |
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170214t20172015enka b 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780198735779 |
| Qualifying information |
hardback |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780198769316 |
| Qualifying information |
paperback |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
128.4 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hyman, John |
| 9 (RLIN) |
13815 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Action, knowledge, and will / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
John Hyman. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Oxford : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2017, c2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 255 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Agency and the will -- Action and integration -- Acts and events -- Voluntariness and choice -- Desire and intention -- Reason and knowledge -- Knowledge as an ability -- The road to Larissa -- Appendix: The modern theory of the will. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"What is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves, such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements we do not cause personally, such as the contraction of the heart? Is an act that is done under duress done voluntarily, out of choice? Should duress exculpate a defendant completely, or should it merely mitigate the criminality of an act? When we explain an intentional act by stating our reasons for doing it, do we explain it causally or teleologically, or both? Should we care whether our choices are guided by knowledge or mere true belief? In this book, John Hyman explores these and other central problems in the philosophy of action and the theory of knowledge, and connects these areas of enquiry in a new way. The main premise of the book is that human action has four irreducibly different dimensions, each with its own family of concepts: - a physical dimension, in which the principal concepts are those of agent, power, and causation; a psychological dimension, with the concepts of desire, aim, and intention; an ethical dimension, with the concepts of voluntariness and choice; an intellectual dimension, with the concepts of reason, knowledge, and belief. Studying each of these dimensions of human action separately yields a string of original results, culminating in a new analysis of the relationship between knowledge and rational behaviour, which provides the foundation for a new theory of knowledge itself."-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Act (Philosophy) |
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13707 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Agent (Philosophy) |
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9720 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Knowledge, Theory of |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1259 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Will |
| 9 (RLIN) |
13816 |
