A companion to the philosophy of action

Part I. Acts and Action: Action theory and ontology/E.J.Lowe - Basic actions and individualism/Constantine Sandis - Trying to act/Jennifer Hornsby - Bodily movements/Adrian Haddock - The casual theory of action/Wayne A. Davis - Adverbs of action and logical form/Kirk Ludwig - Refraining, omitting, and negative acts/Kent Bach - Speech acts/Mitchell S. Green - Collective action/Margaret Gilbert - Habitual actions/Bill Pollard - Cambridge actions/David-Hillel Ruben - Pluism about action/Elijah Millgram

Part II. Agency and Causation: Volition and the will/Laura W. Ekstrom - Intention/Alfred R. Mele - Desire and pleasure/Timothy Schroeder - Teleological explanation/Scott Sehon - Reasons and causes/Timothy O'Connor - Triggering and structuring causes/Fred Dretske - Motivating reasons/Stephen Everson - Humeanism about motivation/Michael Smith - Deviant casual chains/Rowland Stout - Action explanation and the unconscious/Edward Harcourt - Mental causation and epiphenomenalism/John Heil - The explanatory role of consciousness/Naomi Elian - What a difference emotions make/Sabine A. Doring - Agency, patiency, and personhood/Soran Reader - Mental acts/Joelle Proust - Agent causation/Randolph Clarke - Bodily awareness and bodily action/Hong Yu Wong - Agents' Knowledge/Johannes Roessler - Practical reasoning/Bart Streumer - Deliberation and decision/Philip Pettit - Motivational strength/Alfred R. Mele - Addication and compulsion/Neil Levy - Akras and irrationality/Sergio Tenebaum

Part III. Action in Special Contes: Rationality/John Broome - Motivational internalism and externalism/G.F.Schueler - Free will and determination/Thomas Pink - Responsibility and autonomy/John Martin Fischer - Virtuous action/Rosalind Hursthouse - The doctrine of double effect/David S. Oderberg - Action and criminal responsibility/R.A.Duff - Intention in law/Gideon Yaffe - Scientific challenges to free will/Eddy Nahmias - Intentional action in folk psychology/Bertram F. Malle - Attribution theory/ Bernard Weiner - Rational agency in evolutionary perspective/Kim Sterelny and Ben Jeffares - Animal agency/ Hans-Johann Glock - Action in history and social science/Daniel Little - The prediction of action/Nassim N. Taleb and Avital Pilpel

Part IV. Prominent Figures Indian philosophers/Elisa Freschi - Plato/Christine J. Thomas - Aristotle/Ursala Coope - Stoics, epicureans, and aristotelians/T.H. Irwin - Augustine and Aquinas/Stephen Boulter - Duns Scotus/Thomas Williams - Thomas Hobbes/Thaoms Pink - Descartes/Paul Hoffman - Locke/Matthew Stuart - Berkeley/Tom Stoneham - Thomas Reid/Maria Alvarez - Hume/Annette C. Baier - Kant/Eric Watkins - Nietzche/Brian Leiter - Hegel/Michael Quante - Weber/Kieran Allen - Wittgenstein/Severin Schroeder - Ryle/Julia Tanney - Sarte/Katherine J. Morris - Chisholm/Michael J. Zimmerman - Von Wright/Frederick Stoutland - Davidson/Ralf Stoecker - Anscombe/Roger Teichmann - Ricoeur/Anna C. Zielinska.