Reasons for Action (Paperback)

1. Introduction David Sobel and Steven Wall; 2. Intention, belief, and instrumental rationality Michael Bratman; 3. Reasons: practical and adaptive Joseph Raz; 4. The explanatory role of being rational Michael Smith; 5. Practical competence and fluent agency Peter Railton; 6. Practical conditionals James Dreier; 7. Authority and second-personal reasons for acting Stephen Darwall; 8. Promises, reasons, and normative powers Gary Watson; 9. Regret and irrational action Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson; 10. Mackie's motivational argument Philip Clark; 11. The truth in ecumenical expressivism Michael Ridge; 12. Voluntarist reasons Ruth Chang.