Abstract

This paper is a reply to criticism made by A. B. Cody ('Is “Human Action”; a Category?’, Inquiry, Vol. 14 [1971], No. 4) of earlier papers by the author ('On Describing Actions’, Inquiry, Vol. 13 [1970], Nos. 1–2, and ‘Action’, Noûs, Vol. 2 [1968], No. 2). For brevity, familiarity is presupposed not only with the three papers just mentioned, but also with Cody, ‘Can a Single Action Have Many Different Descriptions?’ Inquiry, Vol. 10 (1967), No. 2; R. E. Dowling, ‘ “Can an Action Have Many Descriptions?"?’ Inquiry, Vol. 10 (1967), No. 4; and Cody, ‘A Reply to Mr. Dowling’, ibid.