Human Action and its Explanation
A Study on the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10692467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myles Brand, Raimo Tuomela |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 464 |
| Publication date | 1979-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2184963 |
| OpenAlex | W2089927456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
1 Scientific Realism and Psychology.- Notes.- 2 Human Action.- 1. Actions as Achievements.- 2. Actions and Events.- 3. Actions and Action Statements.- Notes.- 3 Mental Episodes.- 1. The Stream of Consciousness and the Myth of the Given.- 2. Sellars' Analogy Account of Mental Episodes.- 3. Analogy and the Language of Thought.- 4. Rules of Language.- 5. Conceptuality and Mental Episodes.- Notes.- 4 Concept Formation in Psychology.- 1. Psychological Concepts as Theoretico- Reportive Concepts.- 2. Conceptual Functionalism and Postulational Concept Formation.- 3. Theoretical Analyticity and Mental Episodes.- 4. The Indispensability of Mental Episodes.- Notes.- 5 Psychological Dispositions.- 1. A Realist Account of Dispositions.- 2. Propositional Attitudes as Dispositions.- Notes.- 6 Wanting, Intending, and Willing.- 1. Wanting and Intending.- 2. Trying.- 3. A Formalization of First-Order and Second-Order Propositional Attitudes.- Notes.- 7 Conduct Plan and Practical Syllogism.- 1. Conduct Plan.- 2. Practical Syllogism.- 3. Practical Syllogism as a Schema for Understanding Behavior.- 4. Extended Uses of Practical Syllogism.- Notes.- 8 Explanation of Human Action.- 1. Action-Explanations.- 2. Causality and Intentional-Teleological Explanation of Action.- Notes.- 9 Deductive Explanation and Purposive Causation.- 1. Deductive Explanation.- 2. Purposive Causation.- 3. Action-Explanations Reconsidered.- Notes.- 10 Basic Concepts of Action Theory.- 1. Basic Actions and Action Tokens.- 2. Complex Actions.- 3. Intentionality.- Notes.- 11 Propensities and Inductive Explanation.- 1. Propensities.- 2. Screening Off and Supersessance as Explanatory Notions.- 3. Explanatory Ambiguity and Maximal Specificity.- 4. An Analysis of Inductive Explanation.- Notes.- 12 Probabilistic Causation and Human Action.- 1. Probabilistic Causes.- 2. Actions, Propensities, and Inductive- Probabilistic Explanation.- Notes.- References.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects
Action (physics) · Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophy · Psychology
Dilthey's Distinction Between "Explanation" and '"Understanding" and the Possibility of Its "Mediation
The representation of freedom in decisions
The Erklären-Verstehen controversy in the philosophy of the natural and human sciences
On the structuralist approach to the dynamics of theories
Identifying the Explanatory Domain of the Looping Effect
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2021 (44) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |