Essays on Actions and Events

• the most influential figure in American and British philosophy today
• a new edition of a collection of contempory classics from Davidson
• features two additional essays previously uncollected
• to be published simultaneously with the new edition of Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation and the new volume Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
• first edition sold 20,000 copies
• volumes 4 and 5 to follow in the next year or two

Readership: All philosophers; psychologists and linguists interested in philosophy; anyone else interested in mind and action.

Donald Davidson, University of California, Berkeley

"Review from other book by this author `...these intriguing views are ingeniously argued and fruitfully provocative.' Philosophy."

Review(s) from previous edition

"'it must be said that this is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear for a good many years.' - Peter Strawson, Times Literary Supplement

Review(s) from previous edition

"'it must be said that this is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear for a good many years... The positions adopted are argued for with an extraordinarily sustained seriousness and determination... the work will become, and deserves to become, a classic in its field.' - Peter Strawson, Times Literary Supplement

Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Intention and Action1: Actions, Reasons, and Causes (1963)
2: How is Weakness of the Will Possible? (1969)
3: Agency (1971)
4: Freedom to Act (1973)
5: Intending (1978)
Event and Cause6: The Logical Form of Action Sentences (1967)
Criticism, Comment, and Defence
7: Causal Relations (1967)
8: The Individuation of Events (1969)
9: Events as Particulars (1970)
10: Eternal vs. Ephemeral Events (1971)
Philosophy of Psychology11: Mental Events (1970)
Appendix: Emeroses by Other Names (1966)
12: Psychology as Philosophy (1974)
Comments and Replies
13: The Material Mind (1973)
14: Hempel on Explaining Action (1976)
15: Hume's Cognitive Theory of Pride (1976)
Appendix A: Adverbs of Action (1985)
Appendix B: Reply to Quine on Events (1985)
Index, Bibliography