caa a22 4500 606238468 CHVBK 20210128101258.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-015-9577-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-015-9577-5 O'Brien Lilian Department of Philosophy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland aut Beyond Psychologism and Anti-Psychologism [Elektronische Daten] [Lilian O'Brien] What is special about successful action explanation is that it reveals what the agent saw in her action. Most contemporary philosophers assume that this amounts to explanation in terms of the reason for which the agent acted. They also assume that such explanations conform to a realist picture of explanation. What is disputed is whether the reason is a psychological state (Psychologism) or a normative state of affairs (Anti-Psychologism). I argue that neither psychological states nor their contents suffice to make actions intelligible in the right way (such theories fail to meet what I call the Reasonableness Constraint), while Anti-Psychologism can't explain acting on bad reasons (it fails the Bad Reasons Constraint). The alternative that I propose, Proceduralism, has it that explaining an action requires simulating the agent's practical deliberation. On this view, explanation is not grounded in reasons, and thereby avoids the problems with "bad” reasons that Anti-Psychologism faces. Instead, in simulating to the same conclusion as the agent, the "explainer” comes to see what the agent saw in her action, thereby satisfying the Reasonableness Constraint. Proceduralism requires giving up on the assumption that the reason for which the agent acts explains the action and on the realist picture of action explanation. In addition, it accounts for the incomprehension that explainers experience when they encounter "alien” psychologies - psychologies that are deeply different from their own. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Action explanation nationallicence Simulation nationallicence Reasons nationallicence Rationalization nationallicence Reasons explanation nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 281-295 1386-2820 18:2<281 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9577-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9577-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- O'Brien Lilian Department of Philosophy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 281-295 1386-2820 18:2<281 2015 18 10677