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Basic Actions and Individuation
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 10–17 (2010)
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basic actions and individuation ‐ theoretical roots, traced as far back as Aristotle nature of basic actions ‐ focus of Danto's ‘second’ paper Danto's example of paradigmatic basic action ‐ moving an arm “without having to do anything to cause it to move” Baier concluding, the intuitive concept of basic action ‐ depending on failure to separate these questions action individuation ‐ qualifying actions as token members of class of basic actions basicness, an absolute property ‐ not a relative one (like tallness) reductionists ‐ being basic is a matter of description, not kind Donald Davidson, that all actions are basic under some description ‐ since all we ever do is move our bodies
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