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    Behavior caused by beliefs and desires in a deviant causa... — Carmelics
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    Behavior caused by beliefs and desires in a deviant causal chain is not an action but mere behavior.

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    • 1.For behavior to constitute action, it must be caused by the agent's beliefs and desires in the right way.
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    • 2.A deviant causal chain occurs when beliefs and desires cause behavior that is not rationalized by those states.
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    • 3.Behavior caused via a deviant causal chain is not rationalized by the beliefs and desires that caused it.
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    • 1.Anscombe's account in 'Intention' grounds action in the agent's knowledge under a description, not in the causal history of the behavior's production.
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    • 2.If the agent can give the behavior as intentional under some description and that description matches the operative belief-desire pair, the causal pathway's deviance does not strip the behavior of action-status.
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    • 3.Davidson's own criterion of 'the right way' remains unspecified, making deviance a placeholder that conceals rather than resolves the problem of action individuation.
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    • 1.Rationalization is neither necessary nor sufficient for action, as Frankfurt's hierarchical mesh theory shows agency requires identification with motivating states, not causal pathway type.
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    • 2.An agent who endorses and wholeheartedly identifies with the beliefs and desires that produced behavior acts, even if the causal route was unusual or 'deviant' by standard criteria.
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    SEP: anomalous-monism
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    A key point to grasp in many of the issues raised by Anomalous Monism is that there is an important distinction between action and behavior. According to Davidson, action is intentionally described behavior—the moving of a hand through space in a certain way may, but need not, be an action of waving or swatting or any action at all. It may simply be mere bodily behavior—as happens as the result of a muscle twitch or a strong gust of wind. The behavior must be caused by an agent’s beliefs and des
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