Aquinas argues that an agent's act may be voluntary, involuntary, or even non-voluntary. An agent performs a non-voluntary act on these conditions: (a) the agent does not know the act falls under a certain description D, (b) the act under D is not contrary to the agent's will, and (c) if the agent had known that the act fell under D, the agent would still have performed it. Aquinas's full account of non-voluntary acts is terse and ambiguous and seems to contradict ...

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