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Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought. In this collection of his best essays in the philosophy of action, Sandis brings together updated versions of his writings, accompanied by a new introduction. Read collectively they demonstrate the breadth of his interests and ability to relate to broader issues within the culture, connecting debates in philosophical psychology about motivation, negligence, and moral responsibility with Greek tragedy, social psychology and literature. Along this path from action to ethics, Sandis engages with Hegel, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Ricoeur, Davidson, and Dretske, together with contemporary authors such as Jennifer Hornsby and Jonathan Dancy. As he responds to each thinker and theme, he develops his own philosophical position, the key thesis of which is that philosophy of action without ethics is empty, ethics without philosophy of action is blind.

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9781350235113

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These essays show Sandis at his wide-ranging best. Homer and Anthony Powell rub shoulders with Hegel and Davidson in a series of imaginative and thought-provoking discussions of practical reason, action and ethics. * Roger Teichmann, Lecturer in Philosophy, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, UK *

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Constantine Sandis is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, Founding Director of Lex Academic and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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