Synopses & Reviews
The latest offering in the highly successful Oxford Readings in Philosophy series, The Philosophy of Action features contributions from twelve leading figures in the field, including: Robert Audi, Michael Bratman, Donald Davidson, Wayne Davis, Harry Frankfurt, Carl Ginet, Gilbert Harman, Jennifer Hornsby, Jaegwon Kim, Hugh McCann, Paul Moser, and Brian O'Shaughnessy. Alfred Mele provides an introductory essay on the topics chosen and the questions they deal with. Topics addressed include intention, reasons for action, and the nature and explanation of internal action. A selective bibliography is included as a guide to further reading. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this collection provides an accessible and stimulating introduction for readers interested in the philosophy of action, the philosophy of mind, and moral philosophy.
About the Author
Veit Erlmann studied musicology, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy in Berlin and Cologne, obtaining a Ph.D. in 1978. He has since done fieldwork in several African countries, and has taught at the University of Natal, the University of Chicago, the University of Witwatersrand, and the Free
University of Berlin. He is currently Professor and Endowed Chair in the School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.
Table of Contents
A Tale of a Tub, John Traugott
Gulliver and the Gentle Reader, C.J. Rawson
Rhetoric and Poems: The Example of Swift, William K. Wimsatt
Pope: Bipolar Implication, Irvin Ehrenpreis
Alexander Pope: The Political Poet in his Time, Howard Erskine-Hill
"A Double Capacity:" The Beggar's Opera, Ian Donaldson
Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel, Michael McKeon
Life as Pilgrimage and as Theater, Ronald Paulson
Robinson Crusoe: The Self as Master, John J. Richetti
Defoe's Prose Style: The Language of Interpretation, G.A. Starr
Penetration and Impenetrability in Clarissa, Leo Braudy
Tom Jones: Irony and Judgment, John Preston
Smollett and the Old Conventions, Michael Rosenblum
Pastoral War in Tristram Shandy, Richard A. Lanham
Learning to Read Johnson: The Vision of Theodore and The Vanity of Human Wishes, Lawrence Lipking
Structure and Absence in Boswell's Life of Johnson, William C. Dowling
"Our unnatural No-voice": The Heroic Epistle, Pope, and Women's Gothic, Gillian Beer
The Flight from History in Mid-Century Poetry, John Sitter
The Urbane Sublime, Marshall Brown
Dynamics of Fear: Fanny Burney, Patricia Meyer Spacks