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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807099903321

Titolo

Intentionality and action / / edited by Jesús Padilla Gálvez and Margit Gaffal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-055910-2

3-11-056028-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages)

Collana

Aporia ; ; Volume 10

Disciplina

128/.4

Soggetti

Intentionality (Philosophy)

Intention (Logic)

Act (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Intentionality and Action -- Intentionality, Reasons and Motives -- Road Safety -- Intentionality in Husserl’s Logical Investigations -- Commitment (Verbindlichkeit) -- The Paradox of Intentionality -- Intentionality and Monitoring -- Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology on Intention -- Intention and ‘Absicht’ -- Reasons and First-Person Authority -- On the Very Idea of a (Natural) Intentional Relation -- Husserlian Ethics -- Abbreviations of Wittgenstein’s Works -- Index -- List of contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.