Action Decision And Intention

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400946965

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Action, Decision, and Intention by Robert Audi Pdf

Most of the papers in this collection are contributions to action theory intended to be of some relevance to one or another concern of decision theory, particularly to its application to concrete human behavior. Some of the papers touch only indirectly on problems of interest to decision theorists, but taken together they should be of use to both decision theorists and philosophers of action. Robert Audi's paper indicates how a number of questions in action theory might bear on problems in decision theory, and it suggests how some action-theoretic results may help in the construction or interpretation of theories of decision, both normative and empirical. Carl Ginet's essay lays foundations for the conception of action. His volitional framework roots actions internally and conceives them as irreducibly connected with intentionality. Hugh McCann's essay is also foundational, but stresses intention more than volition and lays some of the groundwork for assessing the rationality of intention and intentional action. In William Alston's paper, the notion of a plan as underlying (intentional) action is central, and we are given both a con ception of the structure of intentional action and a set of implicit goals and beliefs - those whose content is represented in the plan - which form an indispensable part of the basis on which the rationality of the action is to be judged.

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501733260

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Action, Intention, and Reason by Robert Audi Pdf

For the first time, Robert Audi presents in Action, Intention, and Reason a full version of his theory of the nature, explanation, freedom, and rationality of human action. Ove the years Audi has set out in journal articles different aspects of a unified theory of action. This volume offers the unity of a single, seamless book with thirteen self-contained chapters, two of them previously unpublished, and a new overview of action theory and the book's contribution to it. The book is divided into four parts, each addressing a major problem area. The chapters in Part One describe the motivational grounds of action, explicate desire, belief, intention, and volition, and give a distinctive account of their interconnections. In the second part, Audi sets out a theory of the explanation of action and argues that actions can be both law-governed and performed for reasons. The third part provides an account of free action and its relation to causation and responsibility. Chapters in the fourth and final part construct an account of rational action and its connections with practical reasoning, self-deception, and weakness of will.

Author : Bruno Verbeek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351906319

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Reasons and Intentions by Bruno Verbeek Pdf

There are a number of problems in philosophy that seem to share a similar possible solution: 'Why do promises and contracts bind?', 'Why ought citizens and judges obey the law?' and 'Can we realize the gains to be made from cooperation?'. All three problems (as well as some others) share a possible solution in the form of rational internal commitment. Reasons and Intentions is a 'state-of-the-art' overview of the relevant positions on the possibility of such commitment, including critical ones. The introduction provides a survey of the central problem of the volume, 'how the will can bind itself and still be instrumental in nature', and the various positions which are further examined in the contributions. Addressing the question of the relation between intentions and action, the considerations which make an intention rational and how this translates into our conception of (moral) agency, this book brings together specially commissioned essays by the leading scholars in the field.

Author : Title John A O'Brien Professor of Philosophy Robert Audi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 940094697X

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Action, Decision, and Intention by Title John A O'Brien Professor of Philosophy Robert Audi Pdf

Author : Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783941743090

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Intention and Practical Thought by Gerhard Preyer Pdf

The philosophical questions about action concern it's nature, it's description and it's explanation. The leading questions are "What a theory of action is possible?", "Are reasons causes?", "What are practical thoughts?" and "What is the formal logic of practical inference?" Gerhard Preyer offers new answers of some old question about the description and the explanation of action and the logical structure of deliberation or practical reasoning which results from the theory of action since the 1950s years. It is argued that a theory of agent can provide an alternative to any theory postulating actions as irreducible entities metaphysically. The author's account presents intention as states irreducible to beliefs and desires. The analysis places also a requirement on a fruitful description of the mind-body problem.

Author : Paisley Livingston,Chair Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities Paisley Livingston
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199278060

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Art and Intention by Paisley Livingston,Chair Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities Paisley Livingston Pdf

Do the artist's intentions have anything to do with the making and appreciation of works of art? In 'Art and Intention', Paisley Livingston develops a broad and balanced perspective on perennial disputes between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists in philosophical aesthetics and critical theory.

Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199888849

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Effective Intentions by Alfred R. Mele Pdf

Each of the following claims has been defended in the scientific literature on free will and consciousness: your brain routinely decides what you will do before you become conscious of its decision; there is only a 100 millisecond window of opportunity for free will, and all it can do is veto conscious decisions, intentions, or urges; intentions never play a role in producing corresponding actions; and free will is an illusion. In Effective Intentions Alfred Mele shows that the evidence offered to support these claims is sorely deficient. He also shows that there is strong empirical support for the thesis that some conscious decisions and intentions have a genuine place in causal explanations of corresponding actions. In short, there is weighty evidence of the existence of effective conscious intentions or the power of conscious will. Mele examines the accuracy of subjects' reports about when they first became aware of decisions or intentions in laboratory settings and develops some implications of warranted skepticism about the accuracy of these reports. In addition, he explores such questions as whether we must be conscious of all of our intentions and why scientists disagree about this. Mele's final chapter closes with a discussion of imaginary scientific findings that would warrant bold claims about free will and consciousness of the sort he examines in this book.

Author : Patrick Swinden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349272976

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Literature and the Philosophy of Intention by Patrick Swinden Pdf

This book attempts to reinstate the importance of authorial intention by examining arguments against it from a variety of sources - American New Criticism, European Structuralism and various kinds of postmodernist theory. It enlists the aid of Kantian aesthetics and contemporary philosophy of language and action, as well as studying the play on intention in the manipulation of character and action in the work of Shakespeare and other English writers from 1600 to the present day.

Author : Bertram F. Malle,Louis J. Moses,Dare A. Baldwin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262632675

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Intentions and Intentionality by Bertram F. Malle,Louis J. Moses,Dare A. Baldwin Pdf

Highlights the roles of intention and intentionality in social cognition.

Author : Julius Kuhl,Jürgen Beckmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783642697463

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Action Control by Julius Kuhl,Jürgen Beckmann Pdf

"It is not thought as such that can move anything, but thought which is for the sake of something and is practical." This discerning insight, which dates back more than 2000years to Aristotle, seems to have been ignored by most psycholo gists. For more than 40years theories of human action have assumed that cogni tion and action are merely two sides of the same coin. Approaches as different as S-O-R behaviorism,social learning theory, consistency theories,and expectancy value theories of motivation and decision making have one thing in common: they all assume that "thought (or any other type of cognition) can move any thing," that there is a direct path from cognition to behavior. In recent years, we have become more and more aware of the complexities in volved in the relationship between cognition and behavior. People do not always do what they intend to do. Aside from several nonpsychological factors capable of reducing cognition-behavior consistency, there seems to be a set of complex psychological mechanisms which intervene between action-related cognitions, such as beliefs, expectancies, values, and intentions,and the enactment of the be havior suggested by those cognitions. In our recent research we have focused on volitional mechanismus which presumably enhance cognition-behavior consistency by supporting the main tenance of activated intentions and prevent them from being pushed aside by competing action tendencies.

Author : Jesús Padilla Gálvez,Margit Gaffal
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110559101

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Intentionality and Action by Jesús Padilla Gálvez,Margit Gaffal Pdf

The book links the concept of intention to human action. It provides answers to questions like: Why do we act intentionally? Which impact do reasons and motives have on our decisions? Certain events are identified as intentional actions when they are considered as being rationalized by reasons. The linguistic description of such events enables us to reveal the structure of intention. The mental and the linguistic constitute irreducible ways of understanding events. Among the topics discussed are intentionality, actions, the linguistic form to talk about intentionality and actions, Brentano’s view of intentionality, the phenomenological approach to intention and Wittgenstein's proposals. The contributions by Wolfgang Künne, Peter Simons, Christian Bermes, Kevin Mulligan, Severin Schroeder, António Marques, Margit Gaffal, Michel Le Du, Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Bernhard Obsieger and Amir Horowitz show that actions and decisions are guided by intentional considerations.

Author : Gerardo I. Simari,Simon D. Parsons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461414728

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Markov Decision Processes and the Belief-Desire-Intention Model by Gerardo I. Simari,Simon D. Parsons Pdf

In this work, we provide a treatment of the relationship between two models that have been widely used in the implementation of autonomous agents: the Belief DesireIntention (BDI) model and Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). We start with an informal description of the relationship, identifying the common features of the two approaches and the differences between them. Then we hone our understanding of these differences through an empirical analysis of the performance of both models on the TileWorld testbed. This allows us to show that even though the MDP model displays consistently better behavior than the BDI model for small worlds, this is not the case when the world becomes large and the MDP model cannot be solved exactly. Finally we present a theoretical analysis of the relationship between the two approaches, identifying mappings that allow us to extract a set of intentions from a policy (a solution to an MDP), and to extract a policy from a set of intentions.

Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195344974

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Springs of Action by Alfred R. Mele Pdf

Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action, Mele constructs an explanatory model for intentional behavior, locating the place and significance of such mental phenomena as beliefs, desires, reason, and intentions in the etiology of intentional action. Part One comprises a comprehensive examination of the standard treatments of the relations between desires, beliefs, and actions. In Part Two, Mele goes on to develop a subtle and well-defended view that the motivational role of intentions is of a different sort from that of beliefs and desires. Mele, also offers a provocative explanation of how we come to have intentions and elaborates on his earlier work concerning akratic failures of will.

Author : The Anh Han
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642375125

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Intention Recognition, Commitment and Their Roles in the Evolution of Cooperation by The Anh Han Pdf

This original and timely monograph describes a unique self-contained excursion that reveals to the readers the roles of two basic cognitive abilities, i.e. intention recognition and arranging commitments, in the evolution of cooperative behavior. This book analyses intention recognition, an important ability that helps agents predict others’ behavior, in its artificial intelligence and evolutionary computational modeling aspects, and proposes a novel intention recognition method. Furthermore, the book presents a new framework for intention-based decision making and illustrates several ways in which an ability to recognize intentions of others can enhance a decision making process. By employing the new intention recognition method and the tools of evolutionary game theory, this book introduces computational models demonstrating that intention recognition promotes the emergence of cooperation within populations of self-regarding agents. Finally, the book describes how commitment provides a pathway to the evolution of cooperative behavior, and how it further empowers intention recognition, thereby leading to a combined improved strategy.

Author : Martin Shaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745657516

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What is Genocide? by Martin Shaw Pdf

In this intellectually and politically potent new book, Martin Shaw proposes a way through the confusion surrounding the idea of genocide. He considers the origins and development of the concept and its relationships to other forms of political violence. Offering a radical critique of the existing literature on genocide, Shaw argues that what distinguishes genocide from more legitimate warfare is that the enemies targeted are groups and individuals of a civilian character. He vividly illustrates his argument from a wide range of historical episodes, and shows how the question 'What is genocide?' matters politically whenever populations are threatened by violence. This compelling book will undoubtedly open up vigorous debate, appealing to students and scholars across the social sciences and in law. Shaw's arguments will be of lasting importance.