Christopher Erhard is Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany.

Tobias Keiling, currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, UK, is based at the University of Bonn, Germany

Introduction Christopher Erhard and Tobias Keiling Part 1: Important Figures: From Brentano to Tengelyi 1. Franz Brentano's Critique of Free Will Denis Seron 2. Phenomenology of Willing in Pfänder and Husserl Karl Mertens 3. Alexander Pfänder's Phenomenology of Motivation Genki Uemura 4. Scheler's Phenomenology of Freedom and His Theory of Action Eugene Kelly 5. The Intentionality and Positionality of Spontaneous Acts: Adolf Reinach's Account of Agency Francesca DeVecchi 6. Dietrich von Hildebrand on the Will and Intentional Agency Alessandro Salice 7. The Varieties of Activity - Hans Reiner's Contribution Christopher Erhard 8. Martin Heidegger: From Fluid Action to Gelassenheit Sacha Golob 9. Edith Stein: Psyche and Action Antonio Calcagno 10. Action in the Phenomenology of Alfred Schütz Michael Barber 11. Determined to act: On the structural place of acting in Sartre's ontology of subjectivity Simone Neuber 12. Emmanuel Levinas: Freedom, and Agency Michael Morgan 13. Hanna Arendt: Plural Agency, Political Power, and Spontaneity Marieke Borren 14. Merleau-Ponty and Agency Thomas Baldwin 15. Paul Ricœur: A Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Meaningful Action Timo Helenius 16. Operari Sequitur Esse: Hermann Schmitz's Attitudinal Theory of Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility Henning Nörenberg 17. Hubert Dreyfus: Skillful Coping and the Nature of Everyday Expertise Justin White 18. Life is an adventure: László Tengelyi's phenomenology of action Tobias Keiling Part 2: Systematic Perspectives Phenomenology of Agency 1: General Issues 19. On the Satisfaction Conditions of Agentive Phenomenology: A Dialogue Terry Horgan and Martine Nida-Rümelin 20.