Action, Knowledge, and Will
by
John Hyman
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198735774
ISBN-13
9780198735779
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 14th, 2015
Print length
270 Pages
Weight
566 grams
Dimensions
24.40 x 16.50 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledgePhilosophy of mindEthics & moral philosophy
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John Hyman explores central problems in philosophy of action and the theory of knowledge, and connects these areas of enquiry in a new way. His approach to the dimensions of human action culminates in an original analysis of the relation between knowledge and rational behaviour, which provides the foundation for a new theory of knowledge itself.
Human agency has four irreducibly different dimensions -- psychological, ethical, intellectual, and physical -- which the traditional idea of a will tended to conflate. Twentieth-century philosophers criticized the idea that acts are caused by ''willing'' or ''volition'', but the study of human action continued to be governed by a tendency to equate these dimensions of agency, or to reduce one to another. Cutting across the branches of philosophy, from logic and epistemology to ethics and jurisprudence, Action, Knowledge, and Will defends comprehensive theories of action and knowledge, and shows how thinking about agency in four dimensions deepens our understanding of human conduct and its causes.
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