Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: inward-looking and outward-looking approaches to agency
- 2 Acting for a reason
- 3 Reasons and passions
- 4 Agent causation
- 5 Mental causation
- 6 Deviant causal chains and causal processes
- 7 Acting with an intention
- 8 Prior intention
- 9 The metaphysics of action
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Suggestions for further reading
- References
- Index
Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: inward-looking and outward-looking approaches to agency
- 2 Acting for a reason
- 3 Reasons and passions
- 4 Agent causation
- 5 Mental causation
- 6 Deviant causal chains and causal processes
- 7 Acting with an intention
- 8 Prior intention
- 9 The metaphysics of action
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Suggestions for further reading
- References
- Index
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- Action , pp. 163 - 165Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2005