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Action and its explanation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.

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Martin, John Levi. The explanation of social action. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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The explanation of social action. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Sandis, Constantine, ed. New Essays on the Explanation of Action. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230582972.

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Explaining human action. London: Duckworth, 1990.

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Explaining human action. La Salle, Ill: Open Court, 1990.

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Sibelius, Patrick. Natural contradictions and the concept of action in mechanics. Åbo: Åbo Academy Press, 1990.

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Desire: Its role in practical reason and the explanation of action. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1995.

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Reasons and purposes: Human rationality and the teleological explanation of action. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.

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Explanation and experiment in social psychological science: Realism and the social constitution of action. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989.

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Identity, interest, and action: A cultural explanation of Sweden's intervention in the Thirty Years War. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Trades Union Congress. Economic and Social Affairs Department. Who's doing what and why?: Shareholder action at Rio Tinto : an explanation for pension fund trustees and other investors. [London]: TUC ESAD, 2000.

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Lewis, Walter. Modern organ building: Being a practical explanation and description of the whole art of organ construction, with especial regard to pneumatic action, including chapters on tuning, voicing, etc. Buren, Netherlands: F. Knuf, 1986.

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James, Hamilton. Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998: Law and explanation. Chicago: CCH Inc., 1998.

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Watson, Rosemary Ann. Reasons as causes of action: A non-Humean account of the causal status of action : explanations in terms of reasons. [s.l.]: typescript, 1992.

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Vayda, Andrew P. Methods and explanations in the study of human actions and their environmental effects. Jakarta: CIFOR/WWF, 1996.

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1938-, Banerjee Hiranmoy, Bandyopadhyay Tirthanath, and Jadavpur University, eds. Action: Explanation and interpretation. Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi & Co. in collaboration with Jadavpur University, 1990.

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Martin, John Levi. Explanation of Social Action. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2011.

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Wald, Benjamin, and Sergio Tenenbaum. Reasons and Action Explanation. Edited by Daniel Star. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199657889.013.10.

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The problem of deviant causation has been a serious obstacle for causal theories of action. We suggest that attending to the problem of deviant causation reveals two related problems for causal theories. First, it threatens the reductive ambitions of causal theories of intentional action. Second, it suggests that such a theory fails to account for how the agent herself is guided by her reasons. Focusing on the second of these, we argue that the problem of guidance turns out to be related to a number of other issues in the literature on action explanation, and that it is much more general: it threatens not only causal theories but any theory of action. Finally, we suggest that a certain version of the view that acting has a constitutive or formal aim can overcome this problem.
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Henning, Tim. Parentheticalism and Action Explanation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797036.003.0007.

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This chapter discusses the nature of action explanation. Against so-called psychologist accounts, it is argued that the reasons cited as explanantia are usually not mental states but worldly states of affairs. Against so-called Anti-Psychologist accounts (such as Dancy’s), it is argued that the factivity of such explanations is not easily cancelled, and that verbs like “believe” and “want” are not mere devices for cancelling factive implicatures (even though there can be ellipsis). In fact, it is argued that simply citing the relevant worldly reasons leaves out an important part of typical action explanations. The correct view is given by parentheticalism: We must explain actions by citing worldly reasons from subjective points of view.
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Lissack, M., and A. Graber. Modes of Explanation: Affordances for Action and Prediction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Modes of Explanation: Affordances for Action and Prediction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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1976-, Sandis Constantine, ed. New essays on the explanation of action. New York: Palgrave Maccmillan, 2009.

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Alvarez, Maria. Desires, Dispositions and the Explanation of Action. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199370962.003.0005.

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We often explain human actions by reference to the desires of the person whose actions we are explaining: “Jane is studying law because she wants to become a judge.” But how do desires explain actions? A widely accepted view is that desires are dispositional states that are manifested in behavior. Accordingly, desires explain actions as ordinary physical dispositions, such as fragility or conductivity, explain their manifestations, namely causally. This paper argues that desires, unlike ordinary physical dispositions, are “manifestation-dependent dispositions”: dispositions whose attribution depends on their having been manifested. This feature of desires, I suggest, favours a “context-placing” approach to understanding how desires explain actions.
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Mele, Alfred R. Causation, Action, and Free Will. Edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.003.0026.

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Many issues at the heart of the philosophy of action and of philosophical work on free will are framed partly in terms of causation. The leading approach to understanding both the nature of action and the explanation or production of actions emphasizes causation. What may be termed standardcausalism is the conjunction of the following two theses: firstly, an event's being an action depends on how it was caused; and secondly, proper explanations of actions are causal explanations. Important questions debated in the literature on free will include: is an action's being deterministically caused incompatible with its being freely performed? Are actions free only if they are indeterministically caused? Does the indeterministic causation of an action preclude its being freely performed? Does free action require agent causation? This article concentrates on issues about action and free will that centrally involve causation.
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Zwart, Frank de. Chapter 9 EU External Action, Intention and Explanation. Taylor & Francis, 2019.

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Action: Explanation and interpretation (Jadavpur studies in philosophy). K.P. Bagchi & Co. in collaboration with Jadavpur University, 1990.

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Seidel, Steven D. Action identification theory as an explanation of social performance. 1991.

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Lennon, Kathleen. Explaining Human Action. Open Court, 1999.

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Lennon, Kathleen. Explaining Human Action. Open Court, 1999.

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Free Will and Action Explanation: A Non-Causal, Compatibilist Account. Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Schueler, G. F. Desire: Its Role in Practical Reason and the Explanation of Action. The MIT Press, 1995.

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Schueler, G. F. Reasons and Purposes: Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action. Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.

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Schueler, G. F. Reasons and Purposes: Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action. Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.

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Abraham, William J. Actions, Agents, Agency, and Explanation in Athanasius. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786511.003.0004.

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In this chapter, the author engages the theology of the fourth-century bishop Athanasius. For Athanasius, given the kind of agent that God is, God’s coming in Christ is a coherent and intelligible action, because God has the capacity and motivation to act in the way he did in Christ. Thus the author engages this primary claim in the chapter, exploring the various facets of Athanasius’ motif of agency and action. First, the author examines the treatise Contra Gentes and there engages Athanasius’ maxim that actions make manifest the identity and nature of the agent who performs them. Second, he explores how this maxim applies to discerning the identity of Jesus Christ, and third, he concludes by offering a brief commentary that highlights how Athanasius can contribute to contemporary thinking on divine agency and divine action.
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Human Action and Its Explanation: A Study on the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology. Springer, 2012.

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Ward, Tony, and Anthony Beech. The explanation of sexual offending. Edited by Teela Sanders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190213633.013.3.

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This essay focuses on four core issues and their normative implications associated with the “theory problem” as it relates to sexual offending. First, a critical task is to build multi-level and interfield theories that are directly responsive to the complex nature of human functioning and psychological architecture. Second, an important cognitive task is to take seriously the level of human agency and mental state psychological explanations of action. This requires accepting the significance of values and personal meanings, and appreciating that social and cultural practices causally influence a person’s sense of self and purpose in life. Third, we need to shift our attention from construct validity procedures and look to understand underlying causal processes. A preoccupation with measurement may trap us into surface-level explanations. Finally, some degree of integration should be attempted between research and conceptual work on dynamic risk factors and that on aetiological theories.
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Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science: Realism and the Social Constitution of Action. Springer, 2011.

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Greenwood, John D. Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science: Realism and the Social Constitution of Action. Springer, 1988.

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Greenwood, John D. Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science: Realism and the Social Constitution of Action. Springer, 2011.

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Bruce, Steve. Action Rational and Irrational. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786580.003.0009.

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The model of human action as resting on rational choices between alternative opportunities for maximizing our utility has been borrowed from liberal economics by social scientists keen to refute the conventional explanation of secularization. This chapter considers whether we can treat religion as a commodity that people buy more or less of according to individual rational choice. It argues that religion differs from soap powder both extrinsically (because we cannot readily compare its costs or benefits) and in terms of its social roots: in most societies switching religion threatens social bonds far more than does changing car brands. Finally, it advances an important general principle: that we should be very reluctant to impute to other people motives that we would not impute to ourselves.
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Herman, David. Explanation and Understanding in Animal Narratives. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850401.003.0008.

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With chapter 6 having described the way norms for mental-state ascriptions operate in a top-down manner in discourse domains, chapter 7 explores how individual narratives can in turn have a bottom-up impact on the ascriptive norms circulating within particular domains. To this end, the chapter discusses how Thalia Field’s 2010 experimental narrative Bird Lovers, Backyard employs a strategic oscillation between two nomenclatures that can be used to profile nonhuman as well as human behaviors: (1) the register of action, which characterizes behavior in terms of motivations, goals, and projects; and (2) the register of events, which characterizes behavior in terms of caused movements that have duration in time and direction in space. In braiding together these two registers, Field’s text suggests not only how discourse practices can be repatterned, but also how such repatterning enables broader paradigm shifts—in this case shifts in ways of understanding cross-species encounters and entanglements.
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Mele, Alfred R. Actions, Explanations, and Causes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190659974.003.0003.

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This chapter defends a causalist position on the explanation of intentional human actions. It defends the thesis that one necessary condition for an adequate explanation of such an action is that the explanation cite a cause of the action. Various options for a required causal condition are identified, including causation by reasons, by beliefs, desires, or intentions, by neural realizers of mental states of these kinds, or by facts about something the agents believed, desired, or intended. Leading anticausalist proposals are rebutted. A major problem highlighted for these proposals features cases in which an agent who has two or more reasons for performing a certain action performs it for only one of those reasons.
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Buchler, Justin. Polarization and Solving the Collective Action Problem. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865580.003.0005.

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The unified model predicts that a legislative caucus that is ideologically homogeneous, electorally diverse and policy-motivated will empower party leaders to solve the collective action problem of sincere voting. The result will be that legislators incrementally adopt ideologically extreme, electorally suboptimal positions in the policy space. Over the course of the post-World War II period, the party caucuses became more ideologically homogeneous, but retained their electoral diversity, thereby creating the conditions for party government. Legislators from centrist, competitive districts closely tracked their party medians rather than adopting centrist positions, which would have satisfied their constituents. That suggests parties are solving the collective action problem of sincere voting. No other institution is comparably suited to creating that effect, and even the rise of competitive primaries serves as a poor explanation for the phenomenon.
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Ringmar, Erik. Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies). Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Winkler, Emily A. Within the Providential Plan. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812388.003.0004.

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In the narratives of William and Henry, who explicitly view history through the lens of explanation by providential will, the degree of the king’s causal and moral responsibility is particularly high. Precisely because they write about England’s history using a providential framework, William and Henry accord English kings a wider sphere of causal influence: they can and do cause earthly victories or disasters through their military leadership and personal character. Those under the king’s command are not morally responsible for immoral actions or defeats, a view that marks a departure from earlier medieval political thought, and differs from John of Salisbury’s view of shared responsibility later in the twelfth century. William and Henry find providential explanations necessary, but not sufficient; their narratives demand explanation by reason and individual action as well.
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Lambert, David G. Mechanisms and determinants of anaesthetic drug action. Edited by Michel M. R. F. Struys. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642045.003.0013.

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This chapter is broken into two main sections: a general description of the principles of ligand receptor interaction and a discussion of the main groups of ‘targets’; and explanation of some common pharmacological interactions in anaesthesia, critical care, and pain management. Agonists bind to and activate receptors while antagonists bind to receptors and block the effects of agonists. Antagonists can be competitive (most common) or non-competitive/irreversible. The main classes of drug target are enzymes, carriers, ion channels, and receptors with examples of anaesthetic relevance interacting with all classes. There are many examples in anaesthesia where multiple interacting drugs are co-administered—polypharmacology. To give an example: neuromuscular blockade. Rocuronium is a non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocker acting as a competitive antagonist at the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Rocuronium competes with endogenous acetylcholine to shift the concentration–response curve for contraction to the right. The degree of contractility is less for a given concentration of acetylcholine (agonist) in the presence of rocuronium. Using the same principle, the rightward shift can be compensated by increasing the amount of acetylcholine (as long as the amount of rocuronium presented to the receptor as an antagonist remains unchanged, its action can be overcome by increased agonist). Acetylcholine at the effect site is increased by acetylcholinesterase inhibition with neostigmine. One of the side-effects of neostigmine is that it acts as an indirect parasympathomimetic. In the cardiovascular system this would lead to muscarinic receptor-mediated bradycardia; these effects are routinely reversed by the competitive muscarinic antagonist glycopyrrolate.
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Ullmann-Margalit, Edna. Invisible-Hand Explanations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802433.003.0008.

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Invisible-hand explanations suggest that many social practices are a product of human action, but not human design. In coming to terms with such explanations, it is essential to distinguish between explanations of the emergence of practices and explanations of the persistence of practices. The kind of invisible-hand explanation that accounts for the emergence of practices might turn out to be altogether different from the kind that accounts for their persistence. The emergence of practices is often best explained by aggregating explanations: Diverse and dispersed action by numerous people might produce some kind of pattern, even if they did not foresee it or intend to bring it about. By contrast, practices often persist because of evolutionary explanations. They survive some sort of competition. Survival value may have nothing to do with the emergence of a practice in the first place.
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Payne, Andrew. The Teleology of Action in the Ascent Passage of the Symposium. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799023.003.0002.

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This chapter is concerned with the ascent passage of the Symposium, which describes the development of eros or love in a single lover. The lover desires the beauty of bodies, souls, customs and laws, and sciences, and finally arrives at the vision of the Form of Beauty. The recognized varieties of teleological explanation, intentional teleology and natural teleology, will not support Plato’s claim that the vision of the Form of Beauty is the end or purpose for the sake of which all the previous stages took place. An account of the function of eros, giving birth in the beautiful, is presented. The concept of function allows Plato to claim in the ascent passage that particular actions are carried out for the sake of an unintended end, namely the vision of the Form of Beauty. This is an instance of the functional teleology of action.
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Anjum, Rani Lill, and Stephen Mumford. Risky Predictions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733669.003.0022.

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Prediction is often seen as explanation’s poor relation. Yet prediction can be more useful than explanation because it is often future-directed and a reason for action. Predictions can still be useful even with a degree of fallibility, which is important since there is no necessity in nature upon which infallible prediction could rest. Indeed, it is an evident weakness of any theory of prediction if it cannot account for the possibility that the very best theory, given the evidence, could still be false.
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