Action

I. Introduction.- II. Action.- 1. Doing and Acting.- 2. Bodily Movements and Actions.- 3. "Acts of Will" and Actions.- 4. Mere Doings and Candidates for Action.- 5. Sufferings.- 6. Responsibility as a Necessary Condition for Action.- 7. Bound Actions, Unbound Actions, and Responsibility.- 8. Four Necessary Conditions for Bound Action.- III. Choosing, Deciding, and Doing.- 9. "Choose" and "Decide".- 10. Choosing and Deciding.- 11. Choosing, Deciding, and Doing.- 12. Choosing, Deciding, and Taking.- 13. Choice, Decision, and Deliberation.- IV. Acting, Doing, and Responsibility.- 14. "Perfectly Ordinary Actions" and Ascriptivism.- 15. Doing Something and Being Responsible for Doing It.- 16. Responsibility, What We Do, and the Upshots of What We Do.- 17. Responsibility, Censure, and Punishment.- 18. Action as a Defeasible Concept.- 19. Q3 and Q4.- 20. Voluntary and Involuntary Behavior: A Preliminary.- V. On Describing Actions.- 21. Action: A Review.- 22. Descriptions of Actions.- 23. One Action: One Description.- 24. A Parallel with Epistemology: Doings and Things.- VI. Voluntary and Intentional Behavior.- 25. Aristotle on Voluntary Behavior.- 26. The Legal Concept of Voluntary Behavior.- 27. Austin and The Model Penal Code: Summation and Discussion.- 28. Voluntary and Involuntary Behavior: An Alternative to Aristotle.- 29. Intentional Behavior.- Bibliography of Works Cited.- Index of Authors Cited.