Wittgenstein

In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 554–561 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Voluntary Action Reasons and Causes References.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's contributions to the philosophy of action   voluntariness as a psychological occurrence ‐ needing to be present on top of physical movements involving an action   willing is thought to be a mental occurrence, but a mental occurrence must be either voluntary or involuntary   voluntary bodily action ‐ a bodily movement caused by a mental act   Wittgenstein's principal claim ‐ about reasons, that they must be distinguished from causes   first‐person authority ‐ applying even to reasons given for one's past actions   Wittgenstein calling a “motive” ‐ what a person could sincerely have offered as a justification of his action at the time   Wittgenstein's principal claim, that we can always be wrong about the causes of our actions but not about our reasons

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