C. Sandis 
The Things We Do and Why We Do Them 

The Things We Do and Why We Do Them argues against the common assumption that there is one thing called ‘action’ which all reason-giving explanations of action are geared towards. Sandis shows why all theories concerned with identifying the nature of our ‘real’ reasons for action fail from the outset.

Table of Content

Preface Acknowledgments Analytic Table of Contents 20 Conflating Views to Avoid The Objectives of Action Explanation Conflation in Action What Makes An Explanation Proper? The Operation of Reasons Nested Explanations The Structure of Agential Explanation Spheres of Explanation Appendix I – The Ontology of Action Appendix II – Thought and Motive in Historiography Bibliography Index

About the author

Constantine Sandis is a lecturer in philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Davidson’s Philosophy of Action (Continuum, forthcoming) and is currently editing a collection of essays on action explanation, forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.