Janice Breidenbach publishes chapter 10 in a recent book, Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, edited by William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons and Nicholas Teh (2018, Routledge, pages 236-260). The title is "Action, Agency and Substance Causation".
Action does not necessitate agency, even though we think that it does. Our attitude could be some mental adaptation. But, even with that point of view, the question remains, "What does action and agency hold in common?"
The title suggests an answer.
These comments use the category-based nested form and other relational models developed within the tradition of C. S. Peirce.