CiNii Books - New essays on the explanation of action

These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.

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Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: REASONS AND CAUSES What Must Actions be for Reasons to Explain Them?
F.Dretske What Kind of Things are Reasons for Action?
S.Everson Was Sally's Reason for Running From the Bear that She Thought it was Chasing Her?
R.Stout Con-reasons as Causes
D.H. Ruben Agential Reasons and the Explanation of Human Behaviour
P.M.S.Hacker Reasons as Non-causal, Context-placing Explanations
J.Tanney Interpretive Explanations
G.F.Schueler Anscombe on the Expression of Intention: An Exegesis
R.Moran & M.J.Stone Can One Act for a Reason Without Acting Intentionally?
J.Knobe & S.D.Kelly Reasons: Explanatory and Normative
J.Raz Reasons, Desires and Intentional Actions
M.Alvarez A Niggle at Nagel: Causally Active Desires and the Explanation of Action
C.Pigden Acting in Character
A.Baier Aquinas on the Explanation of Action
S.Boulter Acting for Reasons - A Grass Root Approach
R.Stoecker PART II: AGENCY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY Sub-Intentional Actions and the Over-Mentalization of Agency
H.Steward Determinism, Intentional Action, and Bodily Movements
F.Stoutland Free Agency, Causation, and Action Explanation
E.J.Lowe Gods and Mental States: The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind
C.Sandis Aristotle's Conception of Practical Thinking
A.W.Price Action in Moral Metaphysics
J.Dancy Non-cognitivism and Motivation
N.Zangwill Index

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