Intentional action first
Intentional action first
The paper motivates a novel research programme in the philosophy of action parallel to the ‘Knowledge First’ programme in epistemology. It is argued that much of the grounds for abandoning the quest for a reductive analysis of knowledge in favour of the Knowledge First alternative is mirrored in the case of intentional action, inviting the hypothesis that intentional action is also, like knowledge, metaphysically basic. The paper goes on to demonstrate the sort of explanatory contribution that intentional action can make once it is no longer taken to be a target for reductive analysis, in explaining other, non-intentional
kinds of action and voluntariness.
intentional action, voluntary action, reduction, analysis, causal deviance
705-718
Levy, Yair
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17 April 2013
Levy, Yair
458644e7-8388-45f5-8e43-ea7e193997a2
Abstract
The paper motivates a novel research programme in the philosophy of action parallel to the ‘Knowledge First’ programme in epistemology. It is argued that much of the grounds for abandoning the quest for a reductive analysis of knowledge in favour of the Knowledge First alternative is mirrored in the case of intentional action, inviting the hypothesis that intentional action is also, like knowledge, metaphysically basic. The paper goes on to demonstrate the sort of explanatory contribution that intentional action can make once it is no longer taken to be a target for reductive analysis, in explaining other, non-intentional
kinds of action and voluntariness.
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Published date: 17 April 2013
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intentional action, voluntary action, reduction, analysis, causal deviance
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Philosophy
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Local EPrints ID: 368430
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/368430
ISSN: 0004-8402
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