# ACTING, CHOOSING, AND DELIBERATING JohnJ. Drummon **Opening (not a real abstract):** Tom has Parkinson's disease and experiences tremors of the bodily extremities. Susan blushes when embarrassed. Are these bodily events actions?' It seems not, since they are something that happens to people, something they undergo rather than something they do. These bodily events are neither initiated by the person nor under the person's control, but when we do something, we think we initiate and control the bodily events. Hence, it seems that an action is, minimally, a bodily performance that is (i) initiated by the agent and (ii) under the agent's control. Moreover, it also seems to be part of the sense o f an initiated action that i t is aimed a t some end, at realizing an (apparently) good (desirable) state of affairs. Hence, it seems also that for a physical performance to be an action it must be (iii) aimed at an end. So, for example, when I **Authors:** [[JohnJ. Drummond]]