Action and Existence A Case for Agent Causation
Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an acti
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REFLECTION REVISITED Jürgen Habermas’s Discursive Theory of Truth
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A Case for Agent Causation James Swindal Duquesne University, USA
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