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Action, Decision, and Intention

Studies in the Foundation of Action Theory as an Approach to Understanding Rationality and Decision

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  1. Robert Audi

    1. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Action Theory as a Resource for Decision Theory

    • Robert Audi
    Pages 207-221

  3. Voluntary Exertion of the Body: A Volitional Account

    • Carl Ginet
    Pages 223-245

  4. Intrinsic Intentionality

    • Hugh J. McCann
    Pages 247-273

  5. An Action-Plan Interpretation of Purposive Explanations of Actions

    • William P. Alston
    Pages 275-299

  6. Formal Logic and Practical Reasoning

    • Bruce Aune
    Pages 301-320

  7. Leading a Rational Life

    • John G. Bennett
    Pages 321-333

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 334-342
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About this book

Most of the papers in this collection are contributions to action theory intended to be of some relevance to one or another concern of decision theory, particularly to its application to concrete human behavior. Some of the papers touch only indirectly on problems of interest to decision theorists, but taken together they should be of use to both decision theorists and philosophers of action. Robert Audi's paper indicates how a number of questions in action theory might bear on problems in decision theory, and it suggests how some action-theoretic results may help in the construction or interpretation of theories of decision, both normative and empirical. Carl Ginet's essay lays foundations for the conception of action. His volitional framework roots actions internally and conceives them as irreducibly connected with intentionality. Hugh McCann's essay is also foundational, but stresses intention more than volition and lays some of the groundwork for assessing the rationality of intention and intentional action. In William Alston's paper, the notion of a plan as underlying (intentional) action is central, and we are given both a con­ ception of the structure of intentional action and a set of implicit goals and beliefs - those whose content is represented in the plan - which form an indispensable part of the basis on which the rationality of the action is to be judged.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

    Robert Audi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Action, Decision, and Intention

  • Book Subtitle: Studies in the Foundation of Action Theory as an Approach to Understanding Rationality and Decision

  • Editors: Robert Audi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4696-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2274-4Published: 31 May 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8588-5Published: 21 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4696-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 136

  • Topics: Philosophy of Law, Operations Research/Decision Theory

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