Speaker: Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University)<\/p>\n
Are there essentially intentional actions?<\/b><\/p>\n
A long tradition in action theory holds that there are such things as essentially intentional actions\u2014actions that are intentional whenever performed (Anscombe, Davidson, Bennett, Turri, etc). In my talk, I argue that the existence of essentially intentional action is a philosophical myth and that this has interesting repercussions\u00a0in action theory and in epistemology. In the first part of my talk, I defend the claim that the doctrine of essentially intentional actions is incompatible with a desirable practical knowledge condition on intentional actions, which I argue we have independent reasons to embrace. In the second part of my talk I argue that the doctrine of essentially intentional actions is incompatible with a plausible solution to a puzzle\u2014the puzzle of novice learning\u2014-that arises for certain kinds of theories of action and I contend that is an additional reason to reject the doctrine. Finally, I explore some interesting conclusions that follow from rejecting the doctrine of essentially intentional actions.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"epistemology-seminar-7-13","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2024-05-02 13:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"05","day":"02","hour":"13","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2024-05-02 14:30:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"05","day":"02","hour":"14","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2024-05-02 12:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"05","day":"02","hour":"12","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2024-05-02 13:30:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"05","day":"02","hour":"13","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"Europe\/London","timezone_abbr":"BST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Epistemology Seminar","slug":"epistemology-seminar","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":188,"filter":"raw","id":39,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/39","collection":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":2016,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2017-01-23 15:17:41","date_utc":"2017-01-23 15:17:41","modified":"2022-03-15 18:10:03","modified_utc":"2022-03-15 18:10:03","url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/venue\/edgecliffe-g03\/","venue":"Edgecliffe G03","slug":"edgecliffe-g03","json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"Edgecliffe G03","description":"","url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/venue\/edgecliffe-g03\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche?id=2016","global_id_lineage":["www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche?id=2016"]},"organizer":[],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Epistemology Seminar: Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University)","description":"<p>Speaker: Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University) Are there essentially intentional actions? A long tradition in action theory holds that there are such things as essentially intentional...<\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/event\/epistemology-seminar-7-13\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2024-05-02T13:00:00+01:00","endDate":"2024-05-02T14:30:00+01:00","location":{"@type":"Place","name":"Edgecliffe G03","description":"","url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/venue\/edgecliffe-g03\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"performer":"Organization"},"is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""}