Action Theory, Volume 22

This is a collection of papers on action theory, very broadly conceived. It contains cutting-edge work by some of the most important contributors in the field.

Basic Causal Deviance, Action Repertoires, and Reliability JESUS H. AGUILAR Self-Defeating Self-Governance CHRISOULA ANDREOU Conclusive Reasons, Knowledge, and Action JOHN A. BARKER ANDFRED ADAMS Exercising Control in Practical Reasoning: Problems for Naturalism about Agency JOHN BISHOP Time, Rationality, and Self-Governance MICHAEL E. BRATMAN An Action Theoretic Problem for Intralevel Mental Causation ANDREI A. BUCKAREFF Are Hard Choices Cases of Incomparability? RUTH CHANG What is an Omission? RANDOLPH CLARKE Diachronic Constraints of Practical Rationality LUCA FERRERO Responsibility and Autonomy: The Problem of Mission Creep JOHN MARTIN FISCHER Free Will and Rational Coherency PATRICIA GREENSPAN Modest Libertarianism and Practical Reason ISHTIYAQUE HAJI Accountability and Some Social Dimensions of Human Agency BENNETT W. HELM Actions and Activity JENNIFER HORNSBY Making Decisions HUGH J. MCCANN Defending Nonhistorical Compatibilism: A Reply to Haji and Cuypers MICHAEL MCKENNA Folk Conceptions of Intentional Action ALFRED R. MELE Frankfurt Examples, Derivative Responsibility, and the Timing Objection DERK PEREBOOM The Norms of Acceptance JOELLE PROUST On the Relation Between Wanting and Willing TAMAR SCHAPIRO Action Explanation and the Free Will Debate: How Incompatibilist Arguments Go Wrong SCOTT SEHON Using Moral Principles to Guide Decisions HOLLY SMITH Four Objections to the Standard Story of Action (and Four Replies) MICHAEL SMITH Group Reasons RAIMO TUOMELA Why the Luck Problem Isn’t MANUEL VARGAS