Action, Knowledge, and Will

Name: Action, Knowledge, and Will
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198735779
Price: 17050 KES
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ISBN: 9780198735779

by John Hyman

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Format Hardback

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 knowledge Philosophy of mind Ethics & moral philosophy Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Philosophy of mind Ethics and 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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