For Huoranszki intentionality of behavior is an irreducibly teleological phenomenon, and hence we cannot dismiss the idea of final causation in our account of intentional action. Intentional actions have, of course, efficient causes, and in certain contexts those causes can even explain what an agent does. But efficient causes cannot explain why what the agent does is intentional as the still dominant causal theories of actions aim to do.
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