Hornsby, Jennifer (2017) Agency time and naturalism. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 91 , pp. 137-153. ISSN 0065-972X.
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Abstract
I look critically at accounts of human action which help themselves to a certain conception of the causal order when they treat actions as effects of mental states. Donald Davidson introduced such accounts in the shape of the “belief-desire theory.” By way of examining Davidson’s ideas about events, I undertake to show what conceptions of time and of causality are needed for understanding agency, and for a viable naturalism.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | agency, causality, time |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Jen Hornsby |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 09:52 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2025 04:00 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25500 |
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