Action

Hornsby, Jennifer and Goulder, Naomi (2011) Action. In: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge.

Abstract

Philosophical study of human action owes its importance to concerns addressed in metaphysics and philosophy of mind about the status of reasoning beings who make their impact in the natural causal world, and concerns addressed in ethics and legal philosophy about human freedom and responsibility. This encyclopedia entry provides an overview of philosophical approaches to the nature of human action.

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