How We Act
How We Act

Author: Berent En C

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780199204182

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'How We Act' presents a compelling picture of human action as part of the natural causal order. Berent Enç eschews any appeal to special capacities supposedly unique to rational agents, such as agent causation or irreducible acts of volition, and by appealing to analogous positions in epistemology and the theory of perception, shows why it is a mistake to subscribe to such capacities. His defense begins with a foundationalist definition of action that rests on a theory of basic acts, conceived here as derived from empirical studies of animal behaviour. Basic acts are complex units that agents acquire as part of their repertoire of things they can readily do - things with which practical syllogisms end.

Reasons and Intentions
Reasons and Intentions

Author: Bruno Verbeek

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1351906321

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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.

Effective Intentions
Effective Intentions

Author: Alfred R. Mele

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-04-22

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0195384261

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Introduction -- Conscious intentions and decisions -- Neuroscience and causes of action -- Neuroscience and free will -- Intentional actions and the alleged illusion of conscious will -- Proximal intentions and awareness reports -- The power of conscious will -- Conclusion.

Faces of Intention
Faces of Intention

Author: Michael Bratman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-01-13

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521637275

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

Intention
Intention

Author: G. E. M. Anscombe

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2000-10-16

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9780674003996

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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.

Reasons and Persons
Reasons and Persons

Author: Derek Parfit

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1986-01-23

Total Pages: 880

ISBN-13: 0191622443

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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

Intentions and Intentionality
Intentions and Intentionality

Author: Bertram F. Malle

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780262632676

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Highlights the roles of intention and intentionality in social cognition.

Intentions in Great Power Politics
Intentions in Great Power Politics

Author: Sebastian Rosato

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0300258682

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Why the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions? States that trust each other can live at peace; those that mistrust each other are doomed to compete for arms and allies and may even go to war. Sebastian Rosato explains that states routinely lack the kind of information they need to be convinced that their rivals mean them no harm. Even in cases that supposedly involved mutual trust—Germany and Russia in the Bismarck era; Britain and the United States during the great rapprochement; France and Germany, and Japan and the United States in the early interwar period; and the Soviet Union and United States at the end of the Cold War—the protagonists mistrusted each other and struggled for advantage. Rosato argues that the ramifications of his argument for U.S.–China relations are profound: the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past.