Although scholarship in philosophy of action has grown in recent years, there has been little work explicitly dealing with the role of time in agency, a role with great significance for the study of action. As the articles in this collection demonstrate, virtually every fundamental issue in the philosophy of action involves considerations of time. The four sections of this volume address the metaphysics of action, diachronic practical rationality, the relation between deliberation and action, and the phenomenology of agency, providing an overview of the central developments in each area with an emphasis on the role of temporality. Including contributions by established, rising, and new voices in the field,　Time and the Philosophy of Action　brings analytic work in philosophy of action together with contributions from continental philosophy and cognitive science to elaborate the central thesis that agency not only develops in time but is shaped by it at every level.

尽管近年来行动哲学的学术研究有所增长，但很少有工作明确涉及到时间在代理中的作用，而这一作用对行动研究具有重大意义。正如本集的文章所表明的，行动哲学中几乎每一个基本问题都涉及对时间的考虑。本卷的四个部分涉及行动的形而上学、非同步实践理性、商议与行动之间的关系以及代理的现象学，对每个领域的核心发展进行了概述，并强调了时间性的作用。时间与行动哲学》包括了该领域中成熟的、正在崛起的和新的声音的贡献，将行动哲学的分析工作与大陆哲学和认知科学的贡献结合起来，阐述了中心论点，即代理权不仅在时间中发展，而且在每个层面上都由它塑造。