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<p><P>What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced&#58; e.g., perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states (in particular ways), but not when caused in other ways. Andrew Sneddon argues that this type of answer, which he calls productionism, is methodologically and substantially mistaken. In particular, productionist answers to this question tend to be either individualistic or foundationalist, or both, without explicit defence. Instead, Sneddon offers an externalist, anti-foundationalist account of what makes an event count as an action, which he calls neo-ascriptivism, after the work of H.L.A. Hart. Specifically, Sneddon argues that our practices of attributing moral responsibility to each other are at least partly constitutive of events as actions.</p>

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Author

Andrew Sneddon

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781402039829

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Physics