Action, Knowledge, and Will
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 14421
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735779.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN
- 9780198735779
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a major research monograph, 255 pages long. It argues that human agency has four irreducibly different dimensions: psychological, ethical, intellectual, and physical – dimensions that that the orthodox view of the will tends to conflate. Drawing on these distinctions leads to a new theory of knowledge as an ability that is exercised by rational thought and behaviour, and it is argued that this theory is able to address some classic problems about the concept of knowledge, such as why knowledge is a better guide to action than true belief.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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