The Importance of Reason

We shouldn't forget that ordinarily when we answer why questions about why someone did something, we've got a case of human agency and we want an explanation. We actually don't speak to states of mind at all. And if we go back to the woman crossing the road to catch the bus, how would you then explain what's going on? If you're not going to say, well, she had these beliefs and desires, that's what caused her to act in that way. So I think if we actually start from the naive kinds of action explanations that we give every day, we'll get a better idea of what it is to do something for a reason.