The individuation of actions

When we act, cerebral events, movements of our body and events outside our body occur. Many philosophers of action identify our actions with some of these events. I shall argue that actions can be individuated in terms of subsets of these events but that they are not identical with the events in terms of which they can be individuated. The suggested principle of act-individuation is defended on its intrinsic merits and is shown to escape the counterintuitive implicaton of other principles. Furthermore, it solves some well-known problems encountered in philosophy of action.