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Author: Kirk Ludwig (Indiana University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.616kg
ISBN: 9780198755623
ISBN 10: 0198755627
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 13 October 2016
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The book is rich in content and extensive in scope. There are useful summaries in (and of) both parts. On the whole, the book is an exceptionally well-argued, high-level contribution to analytic single-agent and plural-agent action theory...it is rewarding especially for those who are interested in technical analyses. Also other philosophers will find his discussions interesting. Ludwig normally goes right into the core of important issues, and does not shy away from saying what he thinks about particular views or arguments. Undoubtedly the book is a great achievement and is strongly recommended for action theorists. * Raimo Tuomela, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * This book is without doubt an impressive achievement, and there is much to learn from the authors meticulous approach. I suspect few readers will be drawn in by Ludwigs focus on the logical form of action sentences, but much Of the book can be appreciated independently of this. The explanatory aim of his overall reductive project is refreshingly ambitious and wide in scope. The arguments by which he pursues it are illuminating and mostly convincing. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to those interested in action theory in general, and to those focused on joint agency in particular. I am looking forward to reading volume 2. * Olle Blomberg, The Philosophical Quarterly *
The book is rich in content and extensive in scope. There are useful summaries in (and of) both parts. On the whole, the book is an exceptionally well-argued, high-level contribution to analytic single-agent and plural-agent action theory...it is rewarding especially for those who are interested in technical analyses. Also other philosophers will find his discussions interesting. Ludwig normally goes right into the core of important issues, and does not shy away from saying what he thinks about particular views or arguments. Undoubtedly the book is a great achievement and is strongly recommended for action theorists. * Raimo Tuomela, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Author Information
Kirk Ludwig is a Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. He taught at the University of Florida from 1990 to 2010 and was the Colonel Alan R. and Margaret G. Crow CLAS Term Professor from 2008 to 2010, when he joined Indiana University, Bloomington. He works primarily in the Philosophy of Mind and Action, Philosophy of Language, and Epistemology. He is the editor of Donald Davidson (CUP, 2003), co-author with Ernie Lepore of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality (OUP, 2005) and Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics (OUP, 2007), and co-editor with Ernie Lepore of Companion to Donald Davidson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
