New Essays on the Explanation of Action

by Sandis, Constantine

• ISBN13: 9780230522022
• ISBN10: 0230522025
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

A solid cast of contributors present the first collection of essays on the Philosophy of Action.

Author Biography

CONSTANTINE SANDIS is a senior lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and NYU in London, UK. He is currently co-editing, with Timothy O Connor, A Companion to the Philosophy of Action.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Reasons And Causes What Must Actions be for Reasons to Explain Them?

What Kind of Things are Reasons for Action?

Was Sally's Reason for Running From the Bear that She Thought it was Chasing Her?

Con-reasons as Causes

Agential Reasons and the Explanation of Human Behaviour

Reasons as Non-causal, Context-placing Explanations

Interpretive Explanations

Anscombe on the Expression of Intention: An Exegesis

Can One Act for a Reason Without Acting Intentionally?

Reasons: Explanatory and Normative

A Niggle at Nagel: Causally Active Desires and the Explanation of Action

Acting in Character

Aquinas on the Explanation of Action

Acting for Reasons A Grass Root Approach

Agency And Moral Psychology

Sub-Intentional Actions and the Over-Mentalization of Agency

Determinism, Intentional Action, and Bodily Movements

Free Agency, Causation, and Action Explanation

Gods and Mental States: The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind

Aristotle's Conception of Practical Thinking

Action in Moral Metaphysics;J.Dancy Non-cognitivism and Motivation

Index

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