How We Act: Causes, Reasons, and Intentions

How We Act: Causes, Reasons, and Intentions

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Author keywords

Agency; Agent causation; Autonomy; Basic action; Causal deviance; Causal theory of action; Causality; Deliberation; En ; Freedom; Intentions; Naturalism; Ontology; Practical reasoning; Volitions

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DOI: 10.1093/0199256020.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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