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  1. (1 other version)Actions, Reasons, and Causes.Donald Davidson - 1963 - Journal of Philosophy 60 (23):685.
    What is the relation between a reason and an action when the reason explains the action by giving the agent's reason for doing what he did? We may call such explanations rationalizations, and say that the reason rationalizes the action. In this paper I want to defend the ancient - and common-sense - position that rationalization is a species of ordinary causal explanation. The defense no doubt requires some redeployment, but not more or less complete abandonment of the position, as (...)
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  • (1 other version)Trying.Brian O'Shaughnessy - 1973 - Journal of Philosophy 70 (13):365-386.
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  • Volition and basic action.Hugh McCann - 1974 - Philosophical Review 83 (4):451-473.
    The purpose of this paper is to defend the view that the bodily actions of men typicaly involve a mental action of voliton or willing, and that such mental acts are, in at least one important sense, the basic actions we perform when we do things like raise an arm, move a finger, or flex a muscle.
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  • (1 other version)Action and Purpose.Richard Taylor - 1966 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 22 (2):237-237.
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  • (1 other version)Free Action.A. I. Melden - 1961 - Philosophy 37 (141):280-281.
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  • Fatalism and determinism.Wilfrid Sellars - 1966 - In Keith Lehrer (ed.), Freedom and Determinism. Contributors: Roderick M. Chisholm And Others. New York,: Random House. pp. 141--174.
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  • (1 other version)Analytical Philosophy of Action.Arthur C. Danto - 1973 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 7 (1):187-191.
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