How to Perform a Nonbasic Action

Some actions we perform “just like that” without taking a means, e.g., raising your arm or wiggling finger. Other actions—the nonbasic actions—we by voting illuminating room flipping switch. A nearly ubiquitous view about action is that one's means to constitutes the action, as switch room. In this paper, I challenge view. argue can cause rather than constitute it. process, gain clearer understanding of scope our agency—one includes mental such judgment and decision—and pluralistic nature basic features including control, purposefulness, agent participation.