Reviews for Essays on actions and events

The average rating for Essays on actions and events based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-03-12 00:00:00 SERGIO HA Who thought it would be a good idea to have Davidson look like a ghost on the cover of this and the four other volumes? He's the most frightening on Problems of Rationality.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-16 00:00:00 Ben Rigby I think I agree with Davidson about a lot, although I'm less certain about other things (do causal statements really have to be nomological deductions?). My main problem with this book - and the reason for its low rating - was mostly the topics. I really don't care about philosophy of language, I don't care about the logical form of action sentences, I don't care about how we talk about events; I care about actions and I care about events. I don't mean to fault Davidson for this; he is a reasonably clear writer (given the age of the essays, at least) and seems to know his stuff. In fact, maybe I should care about what Davidson is talking about. But unfortunately I don't. I probably should have done more research about the topics discussed in this book, but there you go.