David Sobel is Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Moral Sciences at the University of Nebraska. Steven Wall is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut.

• 1. Introduction David Sobel and Steven Wall; 2. Intention, belief, and instrumental rationality Michael Bratman; 3. Reasons: practical and adaptive Joseph Raz; 4. The explanatory role of being rational Michael Smith; 5. Practical competence and fluent agency Peter Railton; 6. Practical conditionals James Dreier; 7. Authority and second-personal reasons for acting Stephen Darwall; 8. Promises, reasons, and normative powers Gary Watson; 9. Regret and irrational action Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson; 10. Mackie's motivational argument Philip Clark; 11. The truth in ecumenical expressivism Michael Ridge; 12. Voluntarist reasons Ruth Chang.

Review of the hardback: 'Sobel and Wall's collection Reasons for Action brings together twelve important essays about reasons for action, practical reasoning, and rational choice, by some of the leading philosophers in the field today (as well as a useful introduction by the editors themselves). The essays approach these issues from several different points of view, but every one of these essays is an illuminating contribution to the contemporary debates. Everyone who is seriously interested in these questions will find their understanding enriched by a careful study of these essays.' Ralph Wedgwood, University of Oxford