Titlebook: New Essays on the Explanation of Action; Constantine Sandis Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009

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What Must Actions Be for Reasons to Explain Them?If philosophers cannot agree about what action is, they cannot hope to understand the power of reasons to explain it. Without such an understanding, the place of mind in a material world remains utterly mysterious.

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Anscombe on Expression of IntentionAnscombe begins her monograph . by recalling three familiar contexts in which, as she says, we ‘employ a concept of intention’ (§1):

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Book 2009These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues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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Acting for Reasons — A Grass Root Approachstified to take up a strategy that may be worth pursuing in philosophy in any case, the strategy to go down to the roots and to figure out how far the advanced debates have a firm base. Hence, I shall present some exercises in what might be called grass root action theory, which will finally answer the question of what it is to act for reasons.