Christoph Lumer and Sandro Nannini are both Professors of Philosophy at the University of Siena, Italy.

Introduction, ChristophLumer; Part 1 Action, Intention, Intentionality; Chapter 1 Folk Concepts, Surveys and Intentional Action, FrederickAdams, AnnieSteadman; Chapter 2 Action and Responsibility - A Second Look at Ascriptivism, RalfStoecker; Chapter 3 Action Theory and Cognitive Turn, SandroNannini; Chapter 4 What Do Deviant Causal Chains Deviate From?, GeertKeil; Chapter 5 The Double Failure of 'Double Effect', NeilRoughley; Part 2 Action-Theoretical Conceptions of Practical Deliberation; Chapter 6 The Will and The Good, Hugh J.McCann; Chapter 7 The Grounds and Structure of Reasons for Action, RobertAudi; Chapter 8 An Empirical Theory of Practical Reasons and its Use for Practical Philosophy, ChristophLumer; Chapter 9 Anchors for Deliberation, Michael E.Bratman; Part 3 Action-Theoretical Approaches to Freedom, Autonomy and Responsibility; Chapter 10 Autonomy for Real People, MichaelQuante; Chapter 11 Forming the Will Freely, GottfriedSeebass; Chapter 12 An Action Can be Both Uncaused and Up to the Agent, CarlGinet; Chapter 13 Free Will, Alfred R.Mele; Chapter 14 Belief and Moral Responsibility, Carlos J.Moya; Chapter 15 Autonomy and Weakness of Will, ThomasSpitzley;

Many important thinkers in the philosophical tradition, like Aristotle or Hume, have used an explicit theory of action as the basis of their respective normative theories of practical rationality and morality. The idea behind this architecture of theories is that action theory can inform us about the origin, bonds, reach and limits of practical reason. The aim of this book is to revive this direct connection between action theory and practical philosophy, in particular to provide systematic action-theoretical underpinnings for the discussion about the normative structure of practical reason. This book brings together a collection of specially commissioned essays from internationally prestigious scholars in the field and represents the state of the art in contemporary philosophy of action. The book is divided into three parts: i. conceptual work about what actions, intentions and intentional actions are; ii. empirical theory of practical deliberation; and iii.theories about the action theoretic features of autonomy. The volume significantly advances these three lines of research and offers important new contributions to each of them.