Actions and activity

Philosophical Issues 22 (1):233-245 (2012)
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Contemporary literature in philosophy of action seems to be divided overthe place of action in the natural causal world. I think that a disagreementabout ontology underlies the division. I argue here that human action isproperly understood only by reference to a category of process or activity,where this is not a category of particulars

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Jennifer Hornsby
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