(H/B) NEW ESSAYS ON THE EXPLANATION OF ACTION

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This collection of new essays presents the latest developments in philosophical thought on the explanation of action. The contributions focus on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretative explanation and ontology. Challenging numerous current orthodoxies, and offering positive suggestions from a variety of different perspectives, this book provides essential reading for anyone interested in the explanation of action. (From the publisher)

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Notes on contributors
- Introduction
Constantine Sandis
REASONS AND CAUSES
- What Must Actions Be for Reasons to Explain Them?
Fred Dretske
- What Are Reasons for Action?
Stephen Everson
- Was Sally's Reason for Running from the Bear that She Thought it was Chasing Her?
Rowland Stout
- Con-reasons as Causes
David-Hillel Ruben
- Agential Reasons and the Explanation of Human Behaviour
Peter Hacker
- Reasons as Non-causal, Context-placing Explanations
Julia Tanney
- Interpretative Explanations
G. F. Schueler
- Anscombe on Expression of Intention
Richard Moran and Martin J. Stone
- Can One Act for a Reason without Acting Intentionally?
Joshua Knobe and Sean D. Kelly
- Reasons: Explanatory and Normative
Joseph Raz
- Reasons, Desires and Intentional Actions
Maria Alvarez
- A Niggle at Nagel: Causally Active Desires and the Explanation of Action
Charles Pigden
- Acting in Character
Annette Baier
- Aquinas on Action and Action Explanation
Stephen Boulter
- Acting for Reasons - A Grass Root Approach
Ralf Stoecker
AGENCY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY
- Sub-intentional Actions and the Over-mentalization of Agency
Helen Steward
- Determinism, Intentional Action, and Bodily Movements
Frederick 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
Constantine Sandis
- Aristotle's Conception of Practical Thinking
A. W. Price
- Action in Moral Metaphysics
Jonathan Dancy
- Non-cognitivism and Motivation
Nick Zangwil
Index