Reflecting a recent flourishing of creative thinking in the field,
Agents and Their Actions presents seven newly commissioned
essays by leading international philosophers that highlight the
most recent debates in the philosophy of action
* Features seven internationally significant authors, including
new work by two of philosophy’s ‘super stars’, John
Mc Dowell and Joseph Raz
* Presents the first clear indication of how John Mc Dowell is
extending his path-breaking work on intentionality and perceptual
experience towards an account of action and agency
* Covers all the major interconnections between action-agency
and central areas of Philosophy: Metaphysics, Epistemology, History
of Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Philosophy of Language
* Provides a snapshot of current debate on the subject, which is
fresh, enlightening, and fruitful
Table of Content
Notes on Contributors vi
Preface vii
1 Reasons for Action and Practical Reasoning 1
Maria Alvarez
2 Ambivalence and Authentic Agency 20
Laura W. Ekstrom
3 The Road to Larissa 39
John Hyman
4 What is the Content of an Intention in Action? 61
John Mc Dowell
5 Being in the World 79
Joseph Raz
6 Moral Scepticism and Agency: Kant and Korsgaard 99
Robert Stern
7 Speech, Action and Uptake 121
Maximilian de Gaynesford
Index 138
About the author
Maximilian de Gaynesford is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Reading. A previous Fellow of Lincoln College Oxford,
de Gaynesford is the author of I: The Meaning of the First
Person Term (2006), Hilary Putnam (2006), John
Mc Dowell (2004), and a number of articles on the philosophy of
mind and language, moral philosophy, and aesthetics.
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