| Foreword |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Abbreviations |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (4) |
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Chapter 1 The Analogy of Action |
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A The Equivocity of `Action' and Analogical Equivocation |
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5 | (9) |
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B The Order of Agents: Actions and Their Subjects |
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14 | (13) |
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27 | (12) |
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D Common Features of Action |
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39 | (8) |
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Chapter 2 Agency as Efficacy |
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47 | (44) |
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Introduction: Action at Its Lowest Level |
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47 | (4) |
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A The Act of the Agent is in the Patient |
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51 | (8) |
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B What Do Actions Consist In? |
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59 | (6) |
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C Motion as an Irreducible Event |
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65 | (9) |
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D Actions as Events that Consist in Causations |
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74 | (7) |
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E Agent and Patient in the Specification of Action |
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81 | (10) |
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Chapter 3 Agent-Causality and Finality |
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A Finality as a Common Feature of Action |
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91 | (7) |
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B The Origin of the Notion of a Cause |
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98 | (6) |
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104 | (6) |
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D Action, Inclination and Causality |
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110 | (12) |
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E Direct and Indirect Agency |
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122 | (11) |
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Chapter 4 The Agency of the Will |
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133 | (60) |
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135 | (10) |
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B Wanting as a Causal Disposition |
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145 | (11) |
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C The Distinction of Understanding and Willing |
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156 | (11) |
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D The TwofoldRelation of the Will to Its Object |
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167 | (14) |
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181 | (12) |
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Chapter 5 Praeter Intentionem |
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193 | (46) |
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Introduction: Some Terminology |
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193 | (3) |
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A Indirect Objects of Intention and Act-specification |
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196 | (8) |
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B The Diffusiveness and Non-divisiveness of Intention |
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204 | (8) |
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C Evil as Praeter Intentionem |
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212 | (9) |
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D Praeter Intentionem, the Involuntary through Ignorance, and the Specifiability of Action |
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221 | (18) |
| Appendix The Specification of Action in St. Thomas: Nonmotivating Conditions in the Object of Intention |
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239 | (26) |
| Bibliography |
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265 | (6) |
| Index of References to the Works of St Thomas Aquinas |
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271 | (6) |
| Index of Names |
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277 | (2) |
| Index of Subjects |
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