ABSTRACT
This chapter considers free simulation theory (ST) from a stigma earned by some of its predecessors: their failure to recognize that actions depend on the reasons for which they are performed. Among analytically oriented philosophers, at least, they are best known for their antinaturalist portrayal of ordinary, everyday reason explanations, that is, explanations of actions in terms of the reason for which they were performed. Donald Davidson's solution to the mixed motives problem is that what differentiates those reasons that are reasons for which the action was performed from those that are not is a causal relation between the reasons and the action. Mixed motive questions, concerning which of the agent's reasons are reasons for which the action was performed, are often of considerable practical, moral, and legal import; they are not just philosophers' questions.
