Action

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Action is written by Rowland Stout and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773585532 (ISBN 10) and 9780773585539 (ISBN 13).

By focusing on the idea that agency involves causal sensitivity to reasons, Rowland Stout shows how agency is one of the most useful ways into the philosophy of mind: if one can understand what it is to be a free and rational agent, then one can understand what it is to be a conscious subject of experience. Some of the questions considered include: Is all action intentional action? Is intentional action characterized by its relation with possible justification? Do beliefs motivate actions or do facts? What is the nature of the causal process of acting? Are intentions independent components in the explanation of action?