[PDF] Intentional Action eBook

Author : Alicia Juarrero
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2002-01-25
Category : 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.

Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Act (Philosophy).
ISBN : 019507114X

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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, reasons, and intentions in the etiology of intentional action. In the first part, Mele illuminates the connection between desire and action and defends detailed characterizations of irresistible desires and reasons for action. Mele argues for the viability of a causal approach to the explanation of intentional action in terms of psychological states and events, paying special attention to recent worries about the causal relevance of the mental. 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's account, based largely on a careful study of the functions of intentions, presents intentions as states irreducible to collections of beliefs and desires which hinge on their executive and representational features. Springs of Action will be of interest not only to philosophers of action, but also to those interested in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and ethics.

Author : John Hyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0198735774

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John Hyman explores central problems in philosophy of action and the theory of knowledge, and connects these areas of enquiry in a new way. His approach to the dimensions of human action culminates in an original analysis of the relation between knowledge and rational behaviour, which provides the foundation for a new theory of knowledge itself.

Author : Bertram F. Malle
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262632676

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Highlights the roles of intention and intentionality in social cognition.

Author : Rom Harré
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 1998-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780631211396

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In this book, Rom Harre give a state of the art overview of positioning theory via contributions from some of the world's leading experts in the field.

Author : Jesús Padilla Gálvez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110560283

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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.

Author : Ingmar Persson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category :
ISBN : 0198845030

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Ingmar Persson offers an original view of the processes of human action: deliberating on the basis of reasons for and against actions, making a decision about what to do, and from there implementing the decision in action in a way that makes the action intentional. Persson's analysis is mainly developed to suit physical actions, though how it needs to be modified to cover mental acts is also discussed. The interpretation of intentional action that is presented is reductionist in the sense that it does not appeal to any concepts that are distinctive of the domain of action theory, such as a unique type of agent-causation, or irreducible mental acts, like acts of will, volitions, decisions, or tryings. Nor does it appeal to any unanalyzed attitudes or states essentially related to intentional action, like intentions and desires to act. Instead, the intentionality of actions is construed as springing from desires conceived as physical states of agents which cause facts because of the way agents think of them. A sense of our having responsibility that is sufficient for our acting for reasons is also sketched out.

Author : Artika R. Tyner
Publisher :
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Leadership
ISBN : 9781641058650

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