Companion to the Philosophy of Action (eBook)

Timothy O'Connor is Professor and Department Chair of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, and a member of its Cognitive Sciences program. He has published extensively in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, and philosophy of religion. His books include Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will (ed. 1995), Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will (2000), Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings (ed. 2003), Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency (2008) and Downward Causation and the Necessity of Free Will (ed. 2010). Constantine Sandis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and New York University in London. He is the editor of New Essays on the Explanation of Action (2009) and Hegel on Action (with Arto Laitinen, 2010), and author of The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (2010).

"I recommend this volume to all those with any interest in
the concepts treated in the philosophy of action."
(Philosophy in Review, 1 December 2012)

"This companion is a welcome addition to philosophical literature,
asserting a kind of sovereignty over a territory often visited in
philosophical discussions of mind, ethics and metaphysics, but not
given any kind of independence. In asking us to regard the human
action not merely as a part of other areas of philosophical
investigation, but as one worth considering on its own, this
Companion should be applauded. One particularly good feature of the
book is that all the entries are substantial: while one can treat
it as a reference work, readers will find it rewarding to read
straight through the entries in a given section."

--Samuel Guttenplan, Birkbeck, University of London