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ACTIONS AND ACTIVITY
Author(s) -
Hornsby Jennifer
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
philosophical issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.638
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1758-2237
pISSN - 1533-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1533-6077.2012.00227.x
Subject(s) - citation , psychology , sociology , epistemology , library science , philosophy , computer science
Contemporary literature in philosophy of action seems to be divided overthe place of action in the natural causal world. I think that a disagreementabout ontology underlies the division. I argue here that human action isproperly understood only by reference to a category of process or activity,where this is not a category of particulars