Action and Its Explanation [Hardcover]

David-Hillel Ruben mounts a defence of some unusual and original positions in the philosophy of action. Written from a point of view out of sympathy with the assumptions of much of contemporary philosophical action theory, his book draws its inspiration from philosophers as diverse as Aristotle, Berkeley, and Marx. Ruben's work is located in the tradition of the metaphysics of action, and will attract much attention from his peers and from students in the field.

Introduction
1. The Cambridge Theory of Action
2. Some Preliminaries
3. Theories of Action and an Introduction to the Causal Theory of Action
4. The Causal Theory of Action
5. More Theories
6. A Counterfactual Theory of Causal Explanation
Appendix on the Epistemology of Action