Full Idea
Thomas Reid said that an agent's causing something involves a fundamentally different kind of causation from inanimate causing.
Gist of Idea
Reid said that agent causation is a unique type of causation
Source
report of Thomas Reid (Essays on Active Powers 1: Active power [1788]) by Rowland Stout - Action 4 'Agent'
Book Reference
Stout,Rowland: 'Action' [Acumen 2005], p.62
A Reaction
I'm afraid the great philosopher of common sense got it wrong on this one. Introducing a new type of causation into our account of nature is crazy.