From Action to Ethics – A Pluralistic Approach to Reasons and Responsibility

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• ISBN 10:1350235121
• ISBN 13: 9781350235120
• Author:Constantine Sandis

Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought. In this collection of his best essays in the philosophy of action, Sandis brings together updated versions of his writings, accompanied by a new introduction. Read collectively they demonstrate the breadth of his interests and ability to relate to broader issues within the culture, connecting debates in philosophical psychology about motivation, negligence, and moral responsibility with Greek tragedy, social psychology and literature.

Along this path from action to ethics, Sandis engages with Hegel, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Ricoeur, Davidson, and Dretske, together with contemporary authors such as Jennifer Hornsby and Jonathan Dancy. As he responds to each thinker and theme, he develops his own philosophical position, the key thesis of which is that philosophy of action without ethics is empty, ethics without philosophy of action is blind.

Table contents:

Part I: Action

Chapter 1: Action cubes and traces

Chapter 2: What is it to do nothing?

Chapter 3: Are we superhuman or are we dancer?: Action and will in the novels of Anthony Powell

Chapter 4: Reasoning to action

Chapter 5: How to act against your better judgement

Part II: Reasons

Chapter 6: Dretske on the causation of behaviour

Chapter 7: The objects of action explanation

Chapter 8: Verbal reports and ‘real’ reasons: Confabulation and conflation

Chapter 9: Can action explanations ever be non-factive?

Chapter 10: Are reasons like shampoo?

Part III: Ethics

Chapter 11: Gods and mental states: The causation of action in ancient tragedy and modern philosophy

Chapter 12: Motivated by the gods: Compartmentalized agency and responsibility

Chapter 13: The man who mistook his Handlung for a Tat: Hegel on Oedipus and other tragic Thebans

Chapter 14: The doing and the deed: Action in normative ethics

Chapter 15: Ethics and action theory: An unhappy divorce

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