Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xii
Notes on Contributors xiii
Preface to the Paperback Edition xxii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction xxiv
Part I Acts and Actions 1
1 Action Theory and Ontology 3 E. J. Lowe
2 Basic Actions and Individuation 10 Constantine Sandis
3 Trying to Act 18 Jennifer Hornsby
4 Bodily Movements 26 Adrian Haddock
5 The Causal Theory of Action 32 Wayne A. Davis
6 Adverbs of Action and Logical Form 40 Kirk Ludwig
7 Refraining, Omitting, and Negative Acts 50 Kent Bach
8 Speech Acts 58 Mitchell S. Green
9 Collective Action 67 Margaret Gilbert
10 Habitual Actions 74 Bill Pollard
11 Cambridge Actions 82 David-Hillel Ruben
12 Pluralism about Action 90 Elijah Millgram
Part II Agency and Causation 97
13 Volition and the Will 99 Laura W. Ekstrom
14 Intention 108 Alfred R. Mele
15 Desire and Pleasure 114 Timothy Schroeder
16 Teleological Explanation 121 Scott Sehon
17 Reasons and Causes 129 Timothy O’Connor
18 Triggering and Structuring Causes 139 Fred Dretske
19 Motivating Reasons 145 Stephen Everson
20 Humeanism about Motivation 153 Michael Smith
21 Deviant Causal Chains 159 Rowland Stout
22 Action Explanation and the Unconscious 166 Edward Harcourt
23 Mental Causation and Epiphenomenalism 174 John Heil
24 The Explanatory Role of Consciousness 182 Naomi Eilan
25 What a Difference Emotions Make 191 Sabine A. Döring
26 Agency, Patiency, and Personhood 200 Soran Reader
27 Mental Acts 209 Joëlle Prouvést
28 Agent Causation 218 Randolph Clarke
29 Bodily Awareness and Bodily Action 227 Hong Yu Wong
30 Agents’ Knowledge 236 Johannes Roessler
31 Practical Reasoning 244 Bart Streumer
32 Deliberation and Decision 252 Philip Pettit
33 Motivational Strength 259 Alfred R. Mele
34 Addiction and Compulsion 267 Neil Levy
35 Akrasia and Irrationality 274 Sergio Tenenbaum
Part III Action in Special Contexts 283
36 Rationality 285 John Broome
37 Motivational Internalism and Externalism 293 G. F. Schueler
38 Free Will and Determinism 301 Thomas Pink
39 Responsibility and Autonomy 309 John Martin Fischer
40 Virtuous Action 317 Rosalind Hursthouse
41 The Doctrine of Double Effect 324 David S. Oderberg
42 Action and Criminal Responsibility 331 R. A. Duff
43 Intention in Law 338 Gideon Yaffe
44 Scientific Challenges to Free Will 345 Eddy Nahmias
45 Intentional Action in Folk Psychology 357 Bertram F. Malle
46 Attribution Theory 366 Bernard Weiner
47 Rational Agency in Evolutionary Perspective 374 Kim Sterelny and Ben Jeffares
48 Animal Agency 384 Hans-Johann Glock
49 Action in Cognitive Ethology 393 Marc Bekoff
50 Action in History and Social Science 401 Daniel Little
51 The Prediction of Action 410 Nassim N. Taleb and Avital Pilpel
Part IV Prominent Figures 417
52 Indian Philosophers 419 Elisa Freschi
53 Plato 429 Christine J. Thomas
54 Aristotle 439 Ursula Coope
55 Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotelians 447 T. H. Irwin
56 Augustine and Aquinas 459 Stephen Boulter
57 Duns Scotus 466 Thomas Williams
58 Thomas Hobbes 473 Thomas Pink
59 Descartes 481 Paul Hoffman
60 Locke 490 Matthew Stuart
61 Berkeley 496 Tom Stoneham
62 Thomas Reid 505 Maria Alvarez
63 Hume 513 Annette C. Baier
64 Kant 521 Eric Watkins
65 Nietzsche 528 Brian Leiter
66 Hegel 537 Michael Quante
67 Weber 546 Kieran Allen
68 Wittgenstein 554 Severin Schroeder
69 Ryle 562 Julia Tanney
70 Sartre 570 Katherine J. Morris
71 Chisholm 578 Michael J. Zimmerman
72 von Wright 589 Frederick Stoutland
73 Davidson 598 Ralf Stoecker
74 Anscombe 606 Roger Teichmann
75 Ricœur 613 Anna C. Zielinska
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