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Agents and their actions

Maria Alvarez & John Hyman

Philosophy 73 (2):219-245 (1998)

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The Instrumental Structure of Actions.Markos Valaris - 2015 - Philosophical Quarterly 65 (258):64-83.details According to current orthodoxy in the philosophy of action, intentional actions consist in intrinsically mindless bodily movements that stand in causal relations to appropriate mental states. This paper challenges this approach to intentional action, by arguing that there are not enough appropriate mental states around to ‘animate’ all of the bodily movements we intuitively count as intentional actions. In the alternative picture I suggest, the bodily movements that constitute our intentional actions are themselves to be thought of as cognitive events, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 18 citations
Una prospettiva sull'agency: Michael E. Bratman.Marianna Ginocchietti - 2013 - Esercizi Filosofici 8 (1):41-52.details Download Export citation Bookmark
The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Settling: Some Anscombean Reservations.Alec Hinshelwood - 2013 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 56 (6):625-638.details Helen Steward accepts what I call the Separation Thesis, the main tenet of which is that the movements one’s body makes when one acts are the causal results of one’s actions. I claim that this threatens to generate a pair of epistemic shortfalls: first, our perception of others’ bodily movements may not reach to their actions themselves; and, second, our own ‘knowledge in intention’ may not reach to the actual bodily movements in which the efficacy of our actions consists. I (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Processes and the philosophy of action.Andrea White - 2020 - Philosophical Explorations 23 (2):112-129.details While the concept event has been an important tool in our thinking about causation and action, the concept process has not been appealed to so readily. However, recently, several philosophers have... Download Export citation Bookmark
(1 other version)Guidance and Belief.David Hunter - 2009 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39 (S1):63-90.details There is a difference between those things one does that manifest agency and those things that merely happen to one or that are the effects of one's agency. My typing these words manifests my agency – is an action of mine – whereas growing older is merely happening to me and making sounds as I type is but an effect of my action. Actions are sometimes but not always done for reasons and are characteristically but perhaps not invariably known by (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Prichard on Causing a Change.Jonathan Dancy - 2017 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 80:127-138.details This paper starts by considering an interesting argument of H.A. Prichard’s against the view that to act is to cause a change; the argument is that causing is not an activity. The argument is important because of the recent emergence of an ‘agent-causation’ view according to which actions are the causing of changes by agents. I suggest a way of responding to Prichard’s argument, and then, profiting from one of his own conclusions, turn to consider the relation between neurophysiological changes (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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