Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Donald Davidson, Antonio Damasio and Michael Esfeld
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 2. Acting on Beliefs / a. Acting on beliefs
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Acting for a reason is a combination of a pro attitude, and a belief that the action is appropriate [Davidson]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
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The notion of cause is essential to acting for reasons, intentions, agency, akrasia, and free will [Davidson]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes
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The best explanation of reasons as purposes for actions is that they are causal [Davidson, by Smith,M]
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Reasons can give purposes to actions, without actually causing them [Smith,M on Davidson]
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Early Davidson says intentional action is caused by reasons [Davidson, by Stout,R]
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Reasons must be causes when agents act 'for' reasons [Davidson, by Lowe]
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Deviant causal chain: a reason causes an action, but isn't the reason for which it was performed [Davidson, by Neta]
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Davidson claims that what causes an action is the reason for doing it [Davidson, by Kim]
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