Agency and Action

This collection of original essays by leading philosophers covers the entire range of the philosophy of action.

Agency and actions Jennifer Hornsby; Two ways of explaining actions Jonathan Dancy; Anscombe on practical knowledge Richard Moran; Action, the act requirement and criminal liability Antony Duff; Emotion, cognition and action David Charles; Kantian autonomy Terence Irwin; The structure of orthonomy Michael Smith; Normativity and the will Jay Wallace; Can libertarians make promises? Alfred Mele; Intention as faith Rae Langton; The destruction of the World Trade Center and the law on event-identity Michael S. Moore.