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 Tradition
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was an American philosopher and the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the Un
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In Branch: Philosophy of Language, Infobox: main_interests
Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, ontology
In Branch: Philosophy of Action, Infobox: main_interests
Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, ontology
In Branch: Philosophy of Mind, Infobox: main_interests
Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, ontology
In Branch: Epistemology, Infobox: main_interests
Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, ontology
In Branch: Metaphysics, Infobox: main_interests
Philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, ontology
In Group: Pragmatist Philosophy Of Mind, Infobox: school_tradition
Analytic philosophy Neopragmatism
Associated With: Swampman, Article text
Swampman is the subject of a thought experiment introduced by Davidson in his 1987 paper "Knowing One's Own Mind".
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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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It was first proposed by Donald Davidson in his 1970 paper "Mental Events".
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