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Author:   R. Tuomela
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1977 ed.
Volume:   116
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9789027708243

ISBN 10:   902770824
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   30 November 1977
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1 Scientific Realism and Psychology.- Notes.- 2 Human Action.- 1. Actions as Achievements.- 2. Actions and Events.- 3. Actions and Action Statements.- Notes.- 3 Mental Episodes.- 1. The Stream of Consciousness and the Myth of the Given.- 2. Sellars' Analogy Account of Mental Episodes.- 3. Analogy and the Language of Thought.- 4. Rules of Language.- 5. Conceptuality and Mental Episodes.- Notes.- 4 Concept Formation in Psychology.- 1. Psychological Concepts as Theoretico- Reportive Concepts.- 2. Conceptual Functionalism and Postulational Concept Formation.- 3. Theoretical Analyticity and Mental Episodes.- 4. The Indispensability of Mental Episodes.- Notes.- 5 Psychological Dispositions.- 1. A Realist Account of Dispositions.- 2. Propositional Attitudes as Dispositions.- Notes.- 6 Wanting, Intending, and Willing.- 1. Wanting and Intending.- 2. Trying.- 3. A Formalization of First-Order and Second-Order Propositional Attitudes.- Notes.- 7 Conduct Plan and Practical Syllogism.- 1. Conduct Plan.- 2. Practical Syllogism.- 3. Practical Syllogism as a Schema for Understanding Behavior.- 4. Extended Uses of Practical Syllogism.- Notes.- 8 Explanation of Human Action.- 1. Action-Explanations.- 2. Causality and Intentional-Teleological Explanation of Action.- Notes.- 9 Deductive Explanation and Purposive Causation.- 1. Deductive Explanation.- 2. Purposive Causation.- 3. Action-Explanations Reconsidered.- Notes.- 10 Basic Concepts of Action Theory.- 1. Basic Actions and Action Tokens.- 2. Complex Actions.- 3. Intentionality.- Notes.- 11 Propensities and Inductive Explanation.- 1. Propensities.- 2. Screening Off and Supersessance as Explanatory Notions.- 3. Explanatory Ambiguity and Maximal Specificity.- 4. An Analysis of Inductive Explanation.- Notes.- 12 Probabilistic Causation and Human Action.- 1. Probabilistic Causes.- 2. Actions, Propensities, and Inductive- Probabilistic Explanation.- Notes.- References.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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