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13Character and Causation: Aspects of Hume’s Philosophy of ActionRoutledge. 2017.In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume’s philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume’s work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer than previously assumed. Sandis showcases Hume’s interconnected views on action and its causes by situating them within a wider vision of our human understanding of personal identity, causation, freedom, historical explanation, and morality. In so doing, he also relates key aspec…Read more
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11Nayef Al-Rodhan, "Sustainable History and Human Dignity: A Neurophilosophy of History and the Future of Civilisation."Philosophy in Review 43 (1): 4-6. 2022.
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10Book review: G.P. BAKER and P.M.S. HACKER, Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning Parts I (Essays) and II (Exegesis §§ 1—184). (Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations), 2nd edn, extensively revised by P.M.S. Hacker. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, xxiv + 394 & xix + 363 pp. £60 + £60 (review)Discourse Studies 9 (5): 712-713. 2007.
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10Filosofia moral moderna abans i després d’AnscombeEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 64 39. 2020.This paper argues that there was considerably more philosophy of action in moral theory before 1958 (when Anscombe complained of its lack under the banner 'philosophy of psychology') than there has been since. This is in part because Anscombe influenced the formation of 'virtue theory' as yet another position within normative ethics, and her work contributed to the fashioning of 'moral psychology' as an altogether distinct (and now increasingly empirical) branch of moral philosophy.
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7Review of Philosophy of History: A Guide for Students, by M.C. Lemon (review)Essays in Philosophy 8 (2): 344-345. 2007.
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7Review of The Literary Wittgenstein, ed. John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer (review)Essays in Philosophy 7 (1): 126-128. 2006.
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3Philosophy of Action From Suarez to AnscombeRoutledge. 2018.Accounts of human and animal action have been central to modern philosophy from Suarez and Hobbes in the sixteenth century to Wittgenstein and Anscombe in the mid-twentieth century via Locke, Hume, Kant, and Hegel, among many others. Philosophies of action have thus greatly influenced the course of both moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind. This book gathers together specialists from both the philosophy of action and the history of philosophy with the aim of re-assessing the wider philoso…Read more
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1From Anticausalism to Causalism and BackIn Giuseppina D'Oro & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Reasons and Causes: Causalism and Non-causalism in the Philosophy of Action, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 7-48. 2013.
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1Action, reason, and the passionsIn Alan Bailey & Dan O'Brien (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Hume, Continuum. pp. 199--213. 2012.
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Human Nature: Volume 70 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.An understanding of human nature has been central to the work of some of the greatest philosophical thinkers including Plato, Descartes, Hume, Hobbes, Rousseau, Freud and Marx. Questions such as 'what is human nature?', 'is there such a thing as an exclusively human nature?', 'through what methods might we best discover more about our nature?', and 'to what extent are our actions and beliefs constrained by it?' are of central importance not only to philosophy, but to our general understanding of…Read more
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Gods and mental states : the causation of action in ancient tragedy and modern philosophy of mindIn New Essays on the Explanation of Action, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 358--385. 2009.This paper argues that contemporary philosophy of mind and action could learn much from the structure of action explanation manifested in ancient Greek tragedy, which is less deterministic than typically supposed and which does not conflate the motivation of action with its causal production.
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Alasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays (Vol. 1)Philosophy in Review 28 (1): 49. 2008.
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Introduction : Hegel and contemporary philosophy of actionIn Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Hegel on action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom, eds., What Philosophers Think (review)Philosophy in Review 23 373-375. 2003.
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Hume and the debate on 'motivating reasons'In Charles R. Pigden (ed.), Hume on motivation and virtue, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.