Action and Agency
G.E.M. Anscombe. Intention, Blackwell’s 1957, and later editions. About 100 pages.
Donald Davidson. Essays on Actions and Events, essay 1-5, pages 1 to 102.
Harry Frankfurt. ’The problem of Action’, first published in Am. Phil. Quarterly 1978, also in Frankfurt’s The Importance of What we care about. Ca 12 sider
Practical Reasoning/Inference
G.E.M. Anscombe. ’Practical Inference’, first printed in the Schilpp vol. for von Wright. 30 pages.
John Broome. Rationality Through Reasoning, Blackwell’s 2013, introduction and chapters. 14-16. About 50 pages.
Jonathan Dancy. Practical Shape, OUP 2018, Introduction, chapters 1 and 2. About 40 pages.
The Self
Peter Strawson, The Bounds of Sense, Part One, pages 15-44.
Quassim Casssam. Self and World, OUP 1997. Part 1. Self and World, about 30 pages.
Gareth Evans. The Varieties of Reference, OUP 1982, Chapter. 7. About 60 pages
Christopher Peacocke, The Mirror of the World, OUP 2014, chapters 5 and 6, and introduction, 50 pages.
Total about 720 pages. (Some of them challenging.)
The first meeting will present the plan for the book, and frame this plan with reference to Strawson’s approach and the Strawsonian tradition, and discuss the plan for the semester. I am open for new input into how best to proceed.