Negative Actions

Negative Actions

Events, Absences, and the Metaphysics of Agency

Payton, Jonathan D.

Cambridge University Press

02/2021

250

Dura

Inglês

9781108839792

15 a 20 dias

503

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Introduction; 1. Action and ontology; 2. The problem of negative action; 3. Mere manifestations of agency?; 4. The logical form of negative action sentences I: the case for deflationism; 5. The logical form of negative action sentences II: a Neo-Davidsonian approach; 6. The logical form of negative action sentences III: the approach defended; 7. Realizer-functionalism and the metaphysics of events; 8. Objections; Conclusions.
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action; negative action; omissions; events; absences; action sentences; Neo-Davidsonian semantics; token identity