Free Action

A.I. Melden

1. The Case Against Free Action 2. Character as Causal Circumstance 3. Action and Happening – Problems and Perplexities 4. How Does One raise One’s Arm? 5. By Willing, One Does… 6. Physiological Happenings and Bodily Actions 7. Learning and Physiology 8. ‘Action Equals Bodily Movement Plus Motive’ 9. Motive and Explanation 10. Wanting and Wanting To Do 11. Wanting To Do and Doing 12. Wanting To Do, Reasons For Doing, Doing 13. Bodily Movement, Action and Agent 14. Conclusion – Decision, Choice, Prediction and the Voluntary