Reasons and Causes

Review of Metaphysics 19 (4):667 - 688 (1966)
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I want to take issue with these views both by attempting to answer the arguments which have been given against regarding explanations in terms of the agent's reasons as causal and by giving some positive reasons for supposing that such explanations are a kind of causal explanation.

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Action, causality, and teleology.Ruth Macklin - 1969 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 19 (4):301-316.
Reasons for Action.James Rachels - 1971 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1 (2):173 - 187.

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