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The aim of this paper is to grasp the very object of so-called philosophy of action, namely human action. It purports to explore what it is that philosophers of action are interested in when they talk about ‘action’ in a restricted sense. To do so I rely on Elizabeth Anscombe’s way of addressing the issue. Drawing from her monography on intention and from various later writings, I reject the possibility of conceiving of human action as some kind of sub-class of events and thus the possibility of providing an extensional account of ‘human action’. Rather, I explore its relation to the voluntary and the intentional, to the kind of agent performing such actions and to morality.
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Aucouturier, V. (2022). Human Action. In Adrian Haddock, Rachael Wiseman (ed.) (ed.), The Anscombean Mind. Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/228955