Time And The Philosophy Of Action (routledge Studies In Contemporary Philosophy)

Although scholarship in philosophy of action has grown in recent years, there has been little work explicitly dealing with the role of time in agency, a role with great significance for the study of action. As the articles in this collection demonstrate, virtually every fundamental issue in the philosophy of action involves considerations of time. The four sections of this volume address the metaphysics of action, diachronic practical rationality, the relation between deliberation and action, and the phenomenology of agency, providing an overview of the central developments in each area with an emphasis on the role of temporality. Including contributions by established, rising, and new voices in the field, Time and the Philosophy of Action brings analytic work in philosophy of action together with contributions from continental philosophy and cognitive science to elaborate the central thesis that agency not only develops in time but is shaped by it at every level. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 1 Introduction 10 Part I The Metaphysics of Action 28 2 Slip-Proof Actions 30 3 The Antinomy of Basic Action 46 4 Second Nature and Basic Action 61 5 Making the Agent Reappear: How Processes Might Help 76 Part II Diachronic Practical Rationality 94 6 “What on Earth Was I Thinking?” How Anticipating Plan’s End Places an Intention in Time 96 7 Pro-Tempore Disjunctive Intentions 117 8 Evaluative Commitments: How They Guide Us over Time and Why 133 9 Updating the Story of Mental Time Travel: Narrating and Engaging with Our Possible Pasts and Futures 150 Part III Deliberation, Motivation, and Agency 168 10 Time for Action 170 11 Time and the “Antinomies” of Deliberation 184 12 Habituation and First-Person Authority 198 13 Timing Is Not Everything: The Intrinsic Temporality of Action 214 Part IV Phenomenology and the Temporality of Agency 232 14 Care, Death, and Time in Heidegger and Frankfurt 234 15 Merleau-Ponty on the Temporality of Practical Dispositions 251 16 Acts as Changes: A Metabolic Approach to the Philosophy of Action 266 17 Hamlet and the Time of Action 281 Contributors 294 Index 296 Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part I The Metaphysics of Action -- Part II Diachronic Practical Rationality -- Part III Deliberation, Motivation, and Agency -- Part IV Phenomenology and the Temporality of Agency -- Contributors -- Index -- 2 Slip-Proof Actions -- 3 The Antinomy of Basic Action -- 4 Second Nature and Basic Action -- 5 Making the Agent Reappear: How Processes Might Help -- 6 "What on Earth Was I Thinking?" How Anticipating Plan's End Places an Intention in Time -- 7 Pro-Tempore Disjunctive Intentions Edited By Roman Altshuler And Michael J. Sigrist. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.