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Von Wright
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 589–597 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Von Wright on Causality Actions, Events, and Intentionality; Results and Consequences Practical Inference and the Logical Connection Argument Two Kinds of Explanation and Their Compatibility and Congruence The Determinants of Action References Further reading.Author's Profile
Georg Henrik von Wright, the philosophy of action, and his writings, from a formal logic of action embedded in a logic of change Von Wright on causality explanation is intensional ‐ in that whether c explains e depends on how they are described actions, events, and intentionality ‐ results and consequences claim that acting intentionally brings about an event ‐ not involving further claim that all actions are intentional Von Wright carefully distinguishing acts from events brought about in acting events an agent brings about non‐intentionally ‐ being not sequentially structured parts of his intentional acting practical inference and logical connection argument two kinds of explanation and their compatibility and congruence
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