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Full Idea
Once you lose the agent from an account of action it stops being an account of action at all.
Gist of Idea
If you don't mention an agent, you aren't talking about action
Source
Rowland Stout (Action [2005], 4 'Agent')
Book Ref
Stout,Rowland: 'Action' [Acumen 2005], p.63
A Reaction
[he refers to Richard Taylor 1966] This could be correct without implying that agents offer a unique mode of causation. The concept of 'agent' is reducible.