Action and Volition: a mystical or necessary connection?

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  • Andrew Moura UFRGS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21680/1983-2109.2025v32n69ID33541

Keywords:

Action, Volition, Events, Voluntariness

Abstract

The present essay will treat of the relationship between action and volition, trying to introduce the theme starting from traditional theories of volition and the posterior contemporary critiques of this model. With this done, an attempt to answer to said critiques will be made resorting to recent literature on the theory of action and we’ll sketch a basis for a robust theory of volition that, at the same time, doesn’t succumb to a strong reductionism, that corresponds to our ordinary intuitions surrounding acting and that set out the patterns of distinction between what is (or can be) an action and what can’t be so.

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Published

09-12-2025

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MOURA, Andrew. Action and Volition: a mystical or necessary connection?. Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN), [S. l.], v. 32, n. 69, 2025. DOI: 10.21680/1983-2109.2025v32n69ID33541. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/33541. Acesso em: 19 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 32 No. 69 (2025): Princípios: Revista de Filosofia

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