Roderick Chisholm and agent causation theorists argue that genuine action requires a sui generis causal relation between the agent-as-substance and the event, irreducible to event causation by mental states.
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(Personalist anthropology; distinguishes personhood from mere biological individuality)
That which is unique and unrepeatable in each human being, by virtue of which a person is not merely an individual of a species but a personal subject.
mental states(Herder's theory of mind)
Conditions consisting in forces that manifest themselves in people's bodily behavior, conceptually tied to corresponding types of bodily behavior but not reducible thereto
sui generis(Used to characterize goodness if naturalistic definitions all fail.)
A notion that can only be understood in its own terms — in this context, goodness can only be understood in evaluative, not empirical or naturalistic, terms.