Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson
How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person''s hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make a promise? In Actions and Objects, Jonathan Kramnick examines the literature and philosophy of action during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when philosophers and novelists, poets and scientists wer...
How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person''s hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make a promise? In Actions and Objects, Jonathan Kramnick examines the literature and philosophy of action during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when philosophers and novelists, poets and scientists wer...
