Assertion: agency's action | /r/HasProperty | event
Facets:
value: on this view
type: OTHER
value: with a certain causal history
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: According to most versions of event-causal and agent-causal theories, an action is an event that is caused in the right way: the action is identical with or constituted by the outcome of that process.
text: On this view, actions are events, and an event is an action just in case it has the right event-causal history.
text: On this view, actions are events, and an event is an action just in case it has the right agent-causal history.
text: This is also a non-reductive approach to agency, but it differs sharply from both the event-causal and the agent-causal framework in the important respect that it rejects the suggestion that all actions are events with a certain causal history (Ginet 1990; McCann 1998; see also Lowe 2008).
text: According to all three views, actions are events, and the individuation of actions derives from different views on the individuation of events (see the entry on events).