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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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