American philosopher whose causal theory of action holds that a true action statement describes an event, specifically a bodily movement, and that the movement counts as an intentional action when there is a true rationalizing explanation of it in terms of the agent's own reasons acting as its causes.
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Notable PublicationEssays on Actions and Events (1980) 2 Connections
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Source Anomalous Monism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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1. Wikipedia: Donald Davidson
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2. Donald Davidson (Wikipedia)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informationentry: Action
According to Davidson, a true action statement (of the form "x phi-ed") denotes an event, and more specifically, a bodily movement. A bodily movement is an action if, and only if, the event is an intentional action.
Associated With: Philosophy of Action, entry: Action, Section 2.2
Section 2 examines a classic account of intentional action in terms of causation, associated with Donald Davidson's work.
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