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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Padilla Gálvez, Jesús, 1959- editor.

Gaffal, Margit, editor.

Series:

Aporia (Berlin, Germany) ; Volume 10.

Aporia ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intentionality (Philosophy).

Intention (Logic).

Act (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110559101

3110559102

9783110560282

3110560283

OCLC:

1002252058