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THE METAPHYSICS OF ACTION - DAVID-HILLEL RUBEN ...

In this book  the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of
action: trying to act  acting or doing  and one's action causing further consequences. In all
three cases  novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular
mental or physical act but can be explained using conditionals  that action is not the same as
causing something to happen  and in the case of a special but important subset of actions  for
example the opening of a window  the action is identical to the event of the window's opening.
A result of this last account is that it places actions out in the world  sometimes far removed
in time and space from the actor's body. The world is full of action  actions do not just exist
in the many little islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the final
chapter  Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge to the idea that we can ever know
whether or not someone else has acted  rather than just passive events having happened to that
person.

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