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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Reasons, Desires and Intentional Actionsoes something for a reason, some desire of his (or ‘want’ — I use these terms interchangeably here) is always part of the reason for which he does it. Since this view is associated with Hume, I shall call this the ‘Humean’ view of reasons. Humeans argue that without desires there is no motivation in

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A Niggle at Nagel: Causally Active Desires and the Explanation of Actionf passage in . (Nagel 1970, pp. 29–30). But, brief as it is, that passage has had an enormous and, in my view, an undeserved influence. Philosophy, said Wittgenstein, is the struggle of our intellect against the bewitchments of language. More often, so it seems to me, it is the struggle of our intel

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Aquinas on Action and Action Explanation Aquinas. At a minimum a complete study of his views would require close attention to several magisterial ‘mini’ treatises, including the . . (.. I–I, q. 77–89), the . (.. I–II, q. 1–21), the . (.. I–II, q. 49–89) and the . (.. I–II, q. 90–108). What is more, no such study would be complete without

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Sub-intentional Actions and the Over-mentalization of Agencythat actions have something important to do with agents, it is very hard to say anything that is both correct and illuminating about what that important something is. The natural ideas that it might be said that they are . of things by agents or that perhaps they are . of events by agents, turn out

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