What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states (in particular ways), but not when caused in other ways. Andrew Sneddon argues that this type of answer, which he calls &...

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Main Author:	Sneddon, Andrew (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer 2006
Series:	Library of ethics and applied philosophy 18
Subjects:	Act (Philosophy) Events (Philosophy) Responsibility Handlung Handlungstheorie Verantwortung
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states (in particular ways), but not when caused in other ways. Andrew Sneddon argues that this type of answer, which he calls "productionism", is methodologically and substantially mistaken. In particular, productionist answers to this question tend to be either individualistic or foundationalist, or both, without explicit defence. Instead, Sneddon offers an externalist, anti-foundationalist account of what makes an event count as an action, which he calls neo-ascriptivism, after the work of H.L.A. Hart. Specifically, Sneddon argues that our practices of attributing moral responsibility to each other are at least partly constitutive of events as actions.
Item Description:	Literaturverz. S. 181 - 185
Physical Description:	IX, 198 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:	1402039964 1402039824 9781402039966 9781402039829