Action Intention And Reason

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 This volume offers the unity of a single, seamless book with thirteen self-contained chapters, two of them previously unpublished, and a new overview of action theory and the book's contribution to it.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 : Michael Bratman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015013381317

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Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason by Michael Bratman Pdf

Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Anton Ford,Jennifer Hornsby,Frederick Stoutland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674060913

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Essays on Anscombe’s Intention by Anton Ford,Jennifer Hornsby,Frederick Stoutland Pdf

G. E. M. Anscombe's Intention, firmly established the philosophy of action as a distinctive field of inquiry. Donald Davidson called this 94-page book "the most important treatment of action since Aristotle." But until quite recently, few scholars recognized the magnitude of Anscombe's philosophical achievement. This collection of ten essays elucidates some of the more challenging aspects of Anscombe's work and affirms her reputation as one of our most original philosophers. Born in 1919, Anscombe studied at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where she later held a research fellowship. In 1941 she married philosopher Peter Geach, with whom she had seven children. A close friend of Wittgenstein, in 1946 she joined Oxford's Somerville College and spent the next twenty-four years there before being appointed to the Chair of Philosophy at Cambridge that Wittgenstein had held. She died in 2001 after her long career as a highly regarded analytic philosopher. This volume brings together fresh interpretations of Intention written by some of today's leading philosophers of action. It will enlighten Anscombe's readers who struggle with concepts they find puzzling or obscure, while providing a bracing corrective to doubts about Intention's significance and the gravity of what is at stake.

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027722744

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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 W. Binkley,R.N. Bronaugh,Ausonio Marras
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1971-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442633650

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Agent, Action, and Reason by Robert W. Binkley,R.N. Bronaugh,Ausonio Marras Pdf

This volume contains the papers and commentaries presented at the fourth philosophy colloquium at the University of Western Ontario in November 1968. The papers examine, from different points of view, the central problems in the philosophy of action. They include: “Agency” by Donald Davidson with comments by James Cornman; “On the Logic on International Action” by Roderick Chisholm with comments by Bruce Aune and a reply by Roderick Chisholm; “Wanting: Some Pitfalls” by R.M. Hare with comments by David Gauthier and D.F. Pears; “Two Problems about Reasons for Actions” by D.F. Pears with comments by Irving Thalberg. Also included is an extensive bibliography of recent work in the philosophy of action. The contributors are all well known for their work in this branch of philosophy; their papers present a cross section of the best work being done in the area at the present time.

Author : Berent Enç
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Act (Philosophy)
ISBN : 019160223X

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How We Act by Berent Enç Pdf

Talking about action comes easily to us. We quickly make distinctions between voluntary and non-voluntary actions and think we can tell what intentions are. Berent Enç provides a philosopher's sustained examination of these issues.

Author : G. E. M. Anscombe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674003993

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Intention by G. E. M. Anscombe Pdf

Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned. This is a welcome reprint of a book that continues to grow in importance.

Author : Bruno Verbeek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Michael Bratman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521637279

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Faces of Intention by Michael Bratman Pdf

A collection of essays is concerned with deepening our understanding of the notion of intention.

Author : Jesús Padilla Gálvez,Margit Gaffal
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : John Schwenkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190052041

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Anscombe's Intention by John Schwenkler Pdf

Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of actions like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devoutly Catholic Anscombe thought that these actions made Truman a murderer, and thus unworthy of the university's honor-but that this verdict depended on an understanding of intentional action that had been widely rejected in contemporary moral philosophy. Intention was her attempt to work out that understanding and argue for its superiority over a conception of intention as an inner mental state. Though recognized universally as one of the definitive works in analytic philosophy of action, Anscombe's book is often dismissed as unsystematic or obscure, and usually read through the lens of philosophical concerns very far from her own. Schwenkler's Guide offers a careful and critical presentation of Anscombe's main lines of argument at a level appropriate to advanced undergraduates but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, moral philosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy. Further, it situates Intention in a context that emphasizes Anscombe's debts to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, and her engagement with the work of contemporaries like Gilbert Ryle and R.M. Hare, inviting new avenues of engagement with the ideas of historically important philosophers.

Author : Sarah Paul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317245032

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Philosophy of Action by Sarah Paul Pdf

This book offers an accessible and inclusive overview of the major debates in the philosophy of action. It covers the distinct approaches taken by Donald Davidson, G.E.M. Anscombe, and numerous others to answering questions like "what are intentional actions?" and "how do reasons explain actions?" Further topics include intention, practical knowledge, weakness and strength of will, self-governance, and collective agency. With introductions, conclusions, and annotated suggested reading lists for each of the ten chapters, it is an ideal introduction for advanced undergraduates as well as any philosopher seeking a primer on these issues.

Author : Sandro Nannini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317114796

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Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy by Sandro Nannini Pdf

Many important thinkers in the philosophical tradition, like Aristotle or Hume, have used an explicit theory of action as the basis of their respective normative theories of practical rationality and morality. The idea behind this architecture of theories is that action theory can inform us about the origin, bonds, reach and limits of practical reason. The aim of this book is to revive this direct connection between action theory and practical philosophy, in particular to provide systematic action-theoretical underpinnings for the discussion about the normative structure of practical reason. This book brings together a collection of specially commissioned essays from internationally prestigious scholars in the field and represents the state of the art in contemporary philosophy of action. The book is divided into three parts: i. conceptual work about what actions, intentions and intentional actions are; ii. empirical theory of practical deliberation; and iii.theories about the action theoretic features of autonomy. The volume significantly advances these three lines of research and offers important new contributions to each of them.

Author : James David Velleman
Publisher : Michigan Publishing Services
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1607853426

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The Possibility of Practical Reason by James David Velleman Pdf

The Possibility of Practical Reason explores the foundational questions of moral psychology: How can any of our behavior qualify as acting for a reason? How can any considerations qualify as reasons for us to act? David Velleman argues that both possibilities depend on there being a constitutive aim of action―something that makes for success in action as such. These twelve essays―five of which were not included in the previous edition, two of them previously unpublished―discuss topics such as freedom of the will, shared intention, the relation between value and practical reasoning, the foundations of decision theory, and the motivational role of the imagination.