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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of papers on action theory, very broadly conceived. It contains cutting-edge work by some of the most important contributors in the field.
Table of ContentsBasic Causal Deviance, Action Repertoires, and Reliability
JESUS H. AGUILAR
Self-Defeating Self-Governance
CHRISOULA ANDREOU
Conclusive Reasons, Knowledge, and Action
JOHN A. BARKER ANDFRED ADAMS
Exercising Control in Practical Reasoning: Problems for Naturalism about Agency
JOHN BISHOP
Time, Rationality, and Self-Governance
MICHAEL E. BRATMAN
An Action Theoretic Problem for Intralevel Mental Causation
ANDREI A. BUCKAREFF
Are Hard Choices Cases of Incomparability?
RUTH CHANG
What is an Omission?
RANDOLPH CLARKE
Diachronic Constraints of Practical Rationality
LUCA FERRERO
Responsibility and Autonomy: The Problem of Mission Creep
JOHN MARTIN FISCHER
Free Will and Rational Coherency
PATRICIA GREENSPAN
Modest Libertarianism and Practical Reason
ISHTIYAQUE HAJI
Accountability and Some Social Dimensions of Human Agency
BENNETT W. HELM
Actions and Activity
JENNIFER HORNSBY
Making Decisions
HUGH J. MCCANN
Defending Nonhistorical Compatibilism: A Reply to Haji and Cuypers
MICHAEL MCKENNA
Folk Conceptions of Intentional Action
ALFRED R. MELE
Frankfurt Examples, Derivative Responsibility, and the Timing Objection
DERK PEREBOOM
The Norms of Acceptance
JOELLE PROUST
On the Relation Between Wanting and Willing
TAMAR SCHAPIRO
Action Explanation and the Free Will Debate: How Incompatibilist Arguments Go Wrong
SCOTT SEHON
Using Moral Principles to Guide Decisions
HOLLY SMITH
Four Objections to the Standard Story of Action (and Four Replies)
MICHAEL SMITH
Group Reasons
RAIMO TUOMELA
Why the Luck Problem Isn’t
MANUEL VARGAS
