These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.

Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: REASONS AND CAUSES What Must Actions be for Reasons to Explain Them?; F.Dretske What Kind of Things are Reasons for Action?; S.Everson Was Sally's Reason for Running From the Bear that She Thought it was Chasing Her?; R.Stout Con-reasons as Causes; D.H. Ruben Agential Reasons and the Explanation of Human Behaviour; P.M.S.Hacker Reasons as Non-causal, Context-placing Explanations; J.Tanney Interpretive Explanations; G.F.Schueler Anscombe on the Expression of Intention: An Exegesis; R.Moran & M.J.Stone Can One Act for a Reason Without Acting Intentionally? ; J.Knobe & S.D.Kelly Reasons: Explanatory and Normative; J.Raz Reasons, Desires and Intentional Actions; M.Alvarez A Niggle at Nagel: Causally Active Desires and the Explanation of Action; C.Pigden Acting in Character; A.Baier Aquinas on the Explanation of Action; S.Boulter Acting for Reasons - A Grass Root Approach; R.Stoecker PART II: AGENCY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY Sub-Intentional Actions and the Over-Mentalization of Agency; H.Steward Determinism, Intentional Action, and Bodily Movements; F.Stoutland Free Agency, Causation, and Action Explanation; E.J.Lowe Gods and Mental States: The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind; C.Sandis Aristotle's Conception of Practical Thinking; A.W.Price Action in Moral Metaphysics; J.Dancy Non-cognitivism and Motivation; N.Zangwill Index