Abstract

A huge variety of kinds of human behaviour can be explained by revealing a subject's beliefs and desires. What kind of explanation is this? It seems both plausible and suggestive to say that it is causal explanation, that beliefs and desires are causes of behaviour. Indeed this seems so natural that Davidson can regard the onus of proof as resting on someone who denies that the connexion is causal:

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