Reasons and Causes

Maria Alvarez, King's College London, UKJohn Heil, Washington University in St Louis, USA Daniel D. Hutto, University of Hertfordshire, UK Brian P. McLaughlin, Rutgers University, USAAlfred R. Mele, Florida State University, USA Scott Sehon, Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine, USAKarsten Stueber, College of the Holy Cross in Worcester Massachusetts, USAJulia Tanney, University of Kent, UK

• Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. From Anti-Causalism to Causalism and Back: A History of the Reasons/Causes Debate; Giuseppina D'Oro and Constantine Sandis 2. Still a Cause for Concern: Reasons, Causes and Explanations; Dan Hutto 3. Mental Causation According to Davidson; John Heil 4. Why Rationalization Is Not a Species of Causal Explanation; Brian P. McLaughlin 5. Prolegomena to a Cartographical Investigation of Cause and Reason; Julia Tanney 6. Explaining Actions and Explaining Bodily Movements; Maria Alvarez 7. Actions, Explanations, and Causes; Alfred R. Mele 8. The Causal Theory of Action and the Commitments of Common Sense Psychology; Scott Sehon 9. Explaining Human Agency: Reasons, Causes, and the First Person Perspective; Karsten Stueber Index

'The editors of this volume have put together a fine collection of papers. The chapters are consistently very good. Anyone doing scholarship on Davidson will find much of interest in here (especially the essays by D'Oro and Sandis, Hutto, and Heil). The same is true of philosophers working on mental causation. But this book will be of the most value to philosophers working in action theory, particularly those working on debates over reason-explanations.' - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews