On describing actions

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 13 (1-4):90 – 99 (1970)
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In this paper I first give a summary and modification of an analysis of human action for which I have argued elsewhere ( No s, Vol. 2 [1968], No. 2). I then distinguish true, correct and applicable descriptions of actions and propose a thesis by which a single action may be correctly described by more than one description. Finally, I state and argue against the thesis of a paper of A. B. Cody's ( Inquiry, Vol. 10 [1967], No. 2), according to which a single action can be correctly described by no more than one description

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Correct vs. 'merely true' act‐descriptions.Arthur R. Miller - 1974 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 17 (1-4):457-460.
Is 'human action' A category?Arthur B. Cody - 1971 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 14 (1-4):386-419.

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Action.David Rayfield - 1968 - Noûs 2 (2):131-145.
'Can an action have many descriptions?'?R. E. Dowling - 1967 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 10 (1-4):447-448.
A rejoinder.Ruth Macklin - 1967 - Journal of Value Inquiry 1 (2):135-138.
Can a single action have many different descriptions?Arthur B. Cody - 1967 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 10 (1-4):164 – 180.

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