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Reasons and Causes
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 129–138 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Reasons as Not (Efficiently) Causal, Underwriting Irreducibly Teleological Explanations Reasons as Efficient Causes Reasons, Causes, and Physicalism Causally Relevant, though Not Causes Structuring Causes Reasons, Causes, and Free Will References Further reading.
reasons and causes ‐ ‘reasons,’ referring to normative reasons or conditions reasons as not (efficiently) causal ‐ underwriting irreducibly teleological explanations true explanations of actions ‐ citing events which are in fact causes replies by non‐causalists to Davidson's challenge ‐ pointing to agent's intention in acting as grounding the required discrimination reasons as efficient causes reasons, causes and physicalism foregoing ‘causal exclusion’ argument ‐ challenging reconcilability of non‐reductive physicalism not just with a causal theory of action causally relevant, though not causes electrician's establishing a circuit that can be opened ‐ by pressing of the bell, a structuring cause of the effect
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