New Essays on the Explanation of Action (PDF)

MARIA ALVAREZ is a philosophy lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK
ANNETTE BAIER (retired) taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Auckland, Sydney, Carnegie-Mellon, and Pittsburgh, and held visiting appointments at Florida Gainesville, City University of New York, and Michigan, USA
STEPHEN BOULTER is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, UK
JONATHAN DANCY is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK, and at the University of Texas at Austin, USA
FRED DRETSKE is Professor Emeritus at both Stanford University and University of Wisconsin. He is currently a senior research professor (no teaching) at Duke University, USA
STEPHEN EVERSON is a lecturer at the University of York, UK
PETER HACKER is Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, UK
SEAN DORRANCE KELLY is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, USA
JOSHUA KNOBE works primarily in experimental philosophy at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
E. J. LOWE is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK
RICHARD MORAN is the Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, USA
CHARLES PIGDEN teaches philosophy at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand
A. W. PRICE is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
JOSEPH RAZ is professor at Columbia Law School, USA and a Research Professor University of Oxford, UK
DAVID-HILLEL RUBEN is Director of NYU in London and Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, UK
G. F. SCHUELER is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware, USA
HELEN STEWARD is working on topics in the philosophy of action, specifically as they relate to the free will debate at University of Leeds, UK
RALF STOECKER is professor for philosophy, particularly applied ethics, at the University of Potsdam, Germany
MARTIN STONE teaches Law at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University and Philosophy at the New School Graduate Faculty

'This is the most interesting collection of new articles in the philosophy of action for several years, and a clear signal that the orthodoxies of the last forty years are at last giving way to more plausible and fruitful philosophical ideas.'

- John Hyman, University of Oxford, UK

'Constantine Sandis has done a remarkable job of collecting some of the best essays on explanation of action Sandis' anthology is a wonderfully informative collection of essays on action explanation.' Joseph Ulatowski, University of Nevada, Metapsychology

'The discussions in this collection helpfully locate central issues that are up for re-thinking in the re-assessment of contemporary philosophy of action.' Robert Dunn, University of Sidney, Analysis