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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793051503321

Titolo

Essays on Anscombe's Intention [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby, and Frederick Stoutland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-674-06091-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 313 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

FordAnton

HornsbyJennifer

StoutlandFrederick

Disciplina

128/.4

Soggetti

Intention (Logic)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume of essays originated in two conferences. The first, in September 2008, was held at the Philosophy Department of the University of Uppsala, sponsored jointly by the five year program Understanding Agency centered in Uppsala, and the Rational Agency section of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo. The second was a Lipkind conference at the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, held in April 2009 in honour of the 50th anniversary of Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Anscombe's Intention in context / Frederick Stoutland -- Summary of Anscombe's Intention / Frederick Stoutland -- Anscombe on expression of intention : an exegesis / Richard Moran and Martin J. Stone -- Action and generality / Anton Ford -- Actions in their circumstances / Jennifer Hornsby -- Anscombe on bodily self-knowledge / John McDowell -- The knowledge that a man has of his intentional actions / Adrian Haddock -- Knowledge of intention / Kieran Setiya -- Anscombe's Intention and practical knowledge / Michael Thompson -- Forms of practical knowledge and their unity / Sebastian Rodl -- Backward-looking rationality and the unity of practical reason / Anselm Muller -- An Anscombian approach to collective action / Ben Laurence.