Motive and Intention is a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyzes examples of such assessments and provides and independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions. In so doing he illuminates many persistent issues of common interest in the social science Foreword by Richard Taylor Prefaces, humanities, and law.CHAPTER I • What Motives Are Part One Part Two CHAPTER II • The Mental-Cause Theory of Action Part One Part Two Part Three CHAPTER III • Aberrant Accounts of What We Do Part One Part Two CHAPTER IV • ‘Motivation’ and ‘Behavior’ as Temptations Part One Part Two Part Three CHAPTER V • The Standard View of Intentions Part One Part Two CHAPTER VI • The Publicity of Intentions Part One Part Two CHAPTER VII • Evidence of Intention Part One Part Two Index