Intentionality and Action

Intentionality and Action
Author: Jesús Padilla Gálvez
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110559102

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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.

Intentions and Intentionality

Intentions and Intentionality
Author: Bertram F. Malle
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2001
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262632676

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Highlights the roles of intention and intentionality in social cognition.

The Intentionality of Human Action

The Intentionality of Human Action
Author: George M. Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1980
Genre: Act (Philosophy).
ISBN:

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Dynamics in Action

Dynamics in Action
Author: Alicia Juarrero
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2002-01-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262600477

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What is the difference between a wink and a blink? The answer is important not only to philosophers of mind, for significant moral and legal consequences rest on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior. However, "action theory"—the branch of philosophy that has traditionally articulated the boundaries between action and non-action, and between voluntary and involuntary behavior—has been unable to account for the difference. Alicia Juarrero argues that a mistaken, 350-year-old model of cause and explanation—one that takes all causes to be of the push-pull, efficient cause sort, and all explanation to be prooflike—underlies contemporary theories of action. Juarrero then proposes a new framework for conceptualizing causes based on complex adaptive systems. Thinking of causes as dynamical constraints makes bottom-up and top-down causal relations, including those involving intentional causes, suddenly tractable. A different logic for explaining actions—as historical narrative, not inference—follows if one adopts this novel approach to long-standing questions of action and responsibility.

Intentionality

Intentionality
Author: John R. Searle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1983-05-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521273022

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Intentionality provides the philosophical foundations for Searle's earlier works, Speech Acts and Expression and Meaning.

Intentionality and Action

Intentionality and Action
Author: Jesús Padilla Gálvez
Publisher: de Gruyter
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783110559095

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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.

Intentionality and Action

Intentionality and Action
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN: 9783110560312

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Action, Decision, and Intention

Action, Decision, and Intention
Author: Robert Audi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1986-05-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9027722749

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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.

Concepts of Sharedness

Concepts of Sharedness
Author: Hans Bernhard Schmid
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110327171

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The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Conference on Collective Intentionality held at the University of Helsinki August 31 to September 2, 2006 and two additional contributions. The common aim of the papers is to explore the structure of shared intentional attitudes, and to explain how they underlie the social, cultural and institutional world. The contributions to this volume explore the phenomenology of sharedness, the concept of sharedness, and also various aspects of the structure of collective intentionality in general, and of the intricate relations between sharedness and normativity in particular. Concepts of Sharedness shows how rich and lively the philosophical research focused on the analysis of collective intentionality has become, and will provide further inspiration for future work in this rapidly evolving field.

Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy

Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy
Author: Sandro Nannini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317114795

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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.