Causing Things and Doing Things

In C. G. Pulman (ed.), Hart on Responsibility. New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan (2014)
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This paper considers and criticises what appears to be a suggestion by Hart and Honore in 'Causation in the Law' that there is a category of basic doings, which ought not themselves to be regarded as causings. It argues instead that all actions are causings by the agent.

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A Metaphysics for Freedom.Helen Steward - 2012 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
On Action.Carl Ginet - 1990 - Mind 100 (3):390-394.
On Action.Jennifer Hornsby - 1991 - Philosophical Quarterly 41 (165):498-500.
Causation in the Law.F. S. McNeilly - 1959 - Philosophy 37 (139):83-84.

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