Action Intention And Reason

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501733265
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Action, Intention, and Reason written by Robert Audi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 This volume offers the unity of a single, seamless book with thirteen self-contained chapters, two of them previously unpublished, and a new overview of action theory and the book's contribution to it.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 : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9781575861920
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason written by Michael Bratman and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bratman develops a planning theory of intention in this book.

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9027722749
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Action, Decision, and Intention written by Robert Audi and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-05-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : G. E. M. Anscombe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674003996
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intention written by G. E. M. Anscombe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Anton Ford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674060911
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Anscombe’s Intention written by Anton Ford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Schwenkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019005204X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anscombe's Intention written by John Schwenkler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Bratman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason written by Michael Bratman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195344979
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Springs of Action written by Alfred R. Mele and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Bratman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521637275
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces of Intention written by Michael Bratman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays is concerned with deepening our understanding of the notion of intention.

Author : Andy Blunden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395849
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hegel for Social Movements written by Andy Blunden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegel for Social Movements by Andy Blunden is an introduction to the reading of Hegel for social change activists, focusing a non-metaphysical reading of the Logic and the Philosophy of Right.