Author： Keil Geert
Publisher： Rodopi
ISSN： 0165-9227
Source： Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol.61, Iss.1, 2001-06, pp. : 43-62
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Abstract
Many candidates have been tried out as proximate causes of actions: belief-desire pairs, volitions, motives, intentions, and other kinds of pro-attitudes. None of these mental states or events, however, seems to be able to do the trick, that is, to get things going. Each of them may occur without an appropriate action ensuing. After reviewing several attempts at closing the alleged "causal gap", it is argued that on a correct analysis, there is no missing link waiting to be discovered. On the
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