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In Chapter 11 we distinguished between two general kinds of action-explanation, viz. (a) proximate mental explanation and (b) motive-explanation or dynamic explanation. In the case of proximate explanation the agent’s (or agents’) intentions were referred to as an important factor (cf. thesis (ST1) of Section I in Chapter 11). Here we will be more interested in motive-explanations or dynamic explanations by which we mean explanations in terms of deeper underlying mental factors leading to, and generating, intentions and (sometimes directly) action.
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Tuomela, R. (1984). Dynamic Explanation of Social Action. In: A Theory of Social Action. Synthese Library, vol 171. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6317-7_12
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