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

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


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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 of Contents:

List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Actions, Reasons, and Ethics

Part I. Action
1. Action Cubes and Traces
2. What Is It to Do Nothing?
3. Are We Superhuman or Are We Dancer? Action and Will in the Novels of Anthony Powell
4. Reasoning to Action
5. How to Act Against Your Better Judgement

Part II. Reasons
6. The Objects of Action Explanation
7. Dretske on the Causation of Behaviour
8. Verbal Reports and ‘Real Reasons’: Confabulation and Conflation
9. Can Action Explanations Ever Be Non-Factive?
10. Are Reasons Like Shampoo?

Part III. Ethics
11. Gods and Mental States: The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind
12. Motivated by the Gods: Compartmentalized Agency and Responsibility
13. The Man Who Mistook his Handlung for a Tat: Hegel on Oedipus and Other Tragic Thebans
14. The Doing and the Deed: Action in Normative Ethics
15. Ethics and Action Theory: An Unhappy Divorce

Appendix: Basic Actions and Individuation

Notes
Bibliography
Index



About the Author :
Constantine Sandis is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, Founding Director of Lex Academic and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Review :
An engaging and demanding book, richly rewarding attention to detail, keeping up a positive tension throughout the discussions ... The book should be read by everyone invested in philosophy of action, metaethics, moral psychology, normative ethics, and is recommended to all who work in connected fields like social and cognitive psychology, or sociology and history. These essays show Sandis at his wide-ranging best. Homer and Anthony Powell rub shoulders with Hegel and Davidson in a series of imaginative and thought-provoking discussions of practical reason, action and ethics. This excellent collection brings together Constantine Sandis’ recent works on responsibility for action. It presses the claim that to understand this complex issue, ethics and action theory should be recognized as complementary. This compelling claim builds upon an impressively eclectic history of ideas, from the Bhagavad Gita and Sophocles to Freud, G.E.M. Anscombe, and Paul Ricoeur. A must-read. A highly original collection with illuminating reflections from literature, Greek religion, and from an unusually wide range of writing on morals and psychology. Anscombe’s Intention is recast, in relation both to her predecessors and to current work. A book for any philosopher interested in action or in ethics. Quietly radical, this collection provides a synoptic introduction to the field and multi-directional illuminations for its future. Sandis has a keen pluralism, a fine sensitivity to the history of philosophy, and an instinct for what’s interesting.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350235113
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1350235113
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Pluralistic Approach to Reasons and Responsibility


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