Abstract
The main topic of Rudiger Bittner's book 'Doing Things for Reasons' is action
theory. We learn what it is to have reasons for action and how acting in response
to reasons should be construed; we learn to what extent these reasons are elements
of our mental life (and in particular that they aren't mental at all). Almost
at the end of the book, however, in chap. 12, all of a sudden we learn something
more. We receive an answer to the very core question of anthropology: who we
are, as men and women, and what is so special about us - or rather that
there is nothing special about us. It is this last part of the book, easily overlooked,
that I want to concentrate on in my contribution.