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From Action to Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Reasons and Responsibility

Autor Professor Constantine Sandis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 feb 2024
Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought. In this collection of his best essays in the philosophy of action, Sandis brings together updated versions of his writings, accompanied by a new introduction. Read collectively they demonstrate the breadth of his interests and ability to relate to broader issues within the culture, connecting debates in philosophical psychology about motivation, negligence, and moral responsibility with Greek tragedy, social psychology and literature. Along this path from action to ethics, Sandis engages with Hegel, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Ricoeur, Davidson, and Dretske, together with contemporary authors such as Jennifer Hornsby and Jonathan Dancy. As he responds to each thinker and theme, he develops his own philosophical position, the key thesis of which is that philosophy of action without ethics is empty, ethics without philosophy of action is blind.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350235113
ISBN-10: 1350235113
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 6 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers a unified approach to a wide range of topics, from historiography and psychological confabulation to Greek tragedy and normative theory

Notă biografică

Constantine Sandis is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, Founding Director of Lex Academic and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Cuprins

List of FiguresPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Actions, Reasons, and Ethics Part I. Action 1. Action Cubes and Traces2. What Is It to Do Nothing?3. Are We Superhuman or Are We Dancer? Action and Will in the Novels of Anthony Powell4. Reasoning to Action5. How to Act Against Your Better Judgement Part II. Reasons 6. The Objects of Action Explanation7. Dretske on the Causation of Behaviour8. Verbal Reports and 'Real Reasons': Confabulation and Conflation9. Can Action Explanations Ever Be Non-Factive?10. Are Reasons Like Shampoo? Part III. Ethics 11. Gods and Mental States: The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind12. Motivated by the Gods: Compartmentalized Agency and Responsibility13. The Man Who Mistook his Handlung for a Tat: Hegel on Oedipus and Other Tragic Thebans14. The Doing and the Deed: Action in Normative Ethics15. Ethics and Action Theory: An Unhappy Divorce Appendix: Basic Actions and Individuation NotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

These essays show Sandis at his wide-ranging best. Homer and Anthony Powell rub shoulders with Hegel and Davidson in a series of imaginative and thought-provoking discussions of practical reason, action and ethics.
This excellent collection brings together Constantine Sandis' recent works on responsibility for action. It presses the claim that to understand this complex issue, ethics and action theory should be recognized as complementary. This compelling claim builds upon an impressively eclectic history of ideas, from the Bhagavad Gita and Sophocles to Freud, G.E.M. Anscombe, and Paul Ricoeur. A must-read.
A highly original collection with illuminating reflections from literature, Greek religion, and from an unusually wide range of writing on morals and psychology. Anscombe's Intention is recast, in relation both to her predecessors and to current work. A book for any philosopher interested in action or in ethics.
Quietly radical, this collection provides a synoptic introduction to the field and multi-directional illuminations for its future. Sandis has a keen pluralism, a fine sensitivity to the history of philosophy, and an instinct for what's interesting.