Hegel on Action

KATERINA DELIGIORGI is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UKSTEPHEN HOULGATE is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UKDUDLEY KNOWLES is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK ALASDAIR MACINTYRE is Permanent Senior Research Fellow at Notre Dame University, USAJOHN MCDOWELL is Distinguished University Professor at Pittsburgh, USAFRANCESCA MENEGONI is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Padua, Italy DEAN MOYAR is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, USATERRY PINKARD is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, USAROBERT B. PIPPIN is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago, USAMICHAEL QUANTE is Full Professor of Practical Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Germany HANS-CHRISTOPHSCHMIDT AM BUSCH is Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Magdeburg, Germany and Visiting Scholar at the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt, GermanyALLEN SPEIGHT is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USACHARLES TAYLOR is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, CanadaALLEN W. WOOD is Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford University, USA

• Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Hegel and Contemporary Philosophy of Action; A.Laitinen & C.Sandis Hegel and the Philosophy of Action; C.Taylor Hegel on Actions, Reasons, and Causes; D.Knowles Hegel's Social Theory of Agency: The 'Inner-Outer' Problem; R.B.Pippin Towards a Reading of Hegel on Action in the 'Reason' Chapter of the Phenomenology ; J.McDowell Doing without Agency: Hegel's Social Theory of Action; K.Deligiorgi Hegel on Responsibility for Actions and Consequences; A.W.Wood Freedom and the Lifeworld; T.Pinkard Action, Right, and Morality in Hegel's Philosophy of Right ; S.Houlgate Hegel on Faces and Skulls; A.MacIntyre What Does it Mean 'to Make Oneself an Object'? In Defense of a Key Notion of Hegel's Theory of Action; H-C.Schmidt am Busch Hegel's Planning Theory of Agency; M.Quante Hegel, Narrative and Agency; A.Speight Action Between Conviction and Recognition in Hegel's Critique of the Moral Worldviews; F.Menegoni Hegel andAgent-Relative Reasons; D.Moyar Bibliography Index

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