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Essays on Anscombe’s Intention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Essays on Anscombe’s Intention

G. E. M. Anscombe's Intention, firmly established the philosophy of action as a distinctive field of inquiry. Donald Davidson called this 94-page book "the most important treatment of action since Aristotle." But until quite recently, few scholars recognized the magnitude of Anscombe's philosophical achievement. This collection of ten essays elucidates some of the more challenging aspects of Anscombe's work and affirms her reputation as one of our most original philosophers. Born in 1919, Anscombe studied at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where she later held a research fellowship. In 1941 she married philosopher Peter Geach, with whom she had seven children. A close friend of Wittgenstein, in ...

Anscombe's Intention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Anscombe's Intention

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of actions like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devoutly Catholic Anscombe thought that these actions made Truman a murderer, and thus unworthy of the university's honor-but that this verdict depended on an understanding of intentional action that had been widely rejected in contemporary moral philosophy. Intention was her attempt to work out that understanding and argue for its superiority over a conception of intention as an inner men...

Martin Buber’s Dialogical Thought as a Philosophy of Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Martin Buber’s Dialogical Thought as a Philosophy of Action

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Process, Action, and Experience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Process, Action, and Experience

Process, Action, and Experience offers a radical new approach to the philosophy of mind and action, taking processes to be the central subject matter. An international team of contributors consider what kinds of things processes are, and explore the progressive nature of action and conscious experience.

The Metaphysics of Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

The Metaphysics of Action

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one’s action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical act but can be explained using conditionals; that action is not the same as causing something to happen; and in the case of a special but important subset of actions, for example the opening of a window, the action is identical to the event of the window’s opening. A result of this last account is that it places actions out in the world, sometimes far removed in time and space from the actor’s body. The world is full of action; actions do not just exist in the many little islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the final chapter, Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge to the idea that we can ever know whether or not someone else has acted, rather than just passive events having happened to that person.

The Exchange of Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Exchange of Words

The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we learn from others in this way is the basis for most of what we take ourselves to know about the world. In The Exchange of Words, Richard Moran provides a philosophical exploration of human testimony as a form of intersubjective understanding in which speakers communicate by making themselves accountable for the truth of what they say. The book brings together themes from literature, philosophy of language, moral psychology, action theory, and e...

Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2024

Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1940
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Neurolaw and Responsibility for Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Neurolaw and Responsibility for Action

  • Categories: Law

Examines the particularly prescient implications that neuroscience has for legal responsibility, highlighting the philosophical and practical challenges that arise.

New Perspectives on Transparency and Self-Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

New Perspectives on Transparency and Self-Knowledge

It is natural to think that self-knowledge is gained through introspection, whereby we somehow peer inward and detect our mental states. However, so-called transparency theories emphasize our capacity to peer outward at the world, hence beyond our minds, in the pursuit of self-knowledge. For all their popularity in recent decades, transparency theories have also met with myriad challenges. This volume presents new perspectives on transparency-theoretic approaches to self-knowledge. It addresses many under-explored dimensions of transparency theories and considers their wider implications for epistemology, philosophy of mind, and psychology. Some chapters in this volume aim to deepen our unde...

The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

This volume in the St Andrews series contains a collection of essays from leading authors regarding the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, in particular issues in mind and metaphysics, and can be considered a partner work to 2016's The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (also published by Imprint Academic Ltd.).