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The Actor and the Spectator: Foundations of the Theory of Human Action (Key Texts)
The Actor and the Spectator Foundations of the Theory of Human Action - Key Texts
Author: Lewis White Beck
Can a machine think? More pointedly, if I am a machine, can I think? Beck answers these questions by analyzing two clusters of metaphors – one of which dramatizes human beings as spontaneous agents (actors), and the other sees them as observers attempting to explain causally their own behavior and that of the actor (spectators). Using a hyp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781855065574
ISBN-10: 1855065576
Pages: 152
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Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
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