Direct Verzonden Action, Intention, and Reason – Robert Audi

In this collection of essays, Audi develops a general theory of action ranging from the nature of action and action-explanation to free and rational action. Eleven of the chapters were previously published. They include such well-known contributions to the philosophy of action as “The Concept of Wanting”(1973), “Intending” (1973), “Moral Responsibility, Freedom, and Compulsion” (1974), and “Acting for Reasons” (1986), and some more recent papers the influence of which is already being felt: “Self-Deception …