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  1. I’m just sitting around doing nothing: on exercising intentional agency in omitting to act.Andrei A. Buckareff - 2018 - Synthese 195 (10):4617-4635.
    In some recent work on omissions, it has been argued that the causal theory of action cannot account for how agency is exercised in intentionally omitting to act in the same way it explains how agency is exercised in intentional action. Thus, causalism appears to provide us with an incomplete picture of intentional agency. I argue that causalists should distinguish causalism as a general theory of intentional agency from causalism as a theory of intentional action. Specifically, I argue that, while (...)
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  • Traps and gaps in action explanation: Theoretical problems of a psychology of human action.Werner Greve - 2001 - Psychological Review 108 (2):435-451.
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  • Do actions occur inside the body?Helen Steward - 2000 - Mind and Society 1 (2):107-125.
    The paper offers a critical examination of Jennifer Hornsby's view that actions are internal to the body. It focuses on three of Hornsby's central claims: (P) many actions are bodily movements (in a special sense of the word “movement”) (Q) all actions are tryings; and (R) all actions occur inside the body. It is argued, contra Hornsby, that we may accept (P) and (Q) without accepting also the implausible (R). Two arguments are first offered in favour of the thesis (Contrary-R): (...)
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  • On mastering a skill.David Carr - 1981 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 15 (1):87–96.
    David Carr; On Mastering a Skill, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 15, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 87–96, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1981.tb0.
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  • Could affects be effects?Irving Thalberg - 1978 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 56 (2):143-154.
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  • Do our actions cause our behavior?Arnold B. Levison - 1988 - Philosophia 18 (2-3):227-238.
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