Knowledge in action Markos Valaris

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valaris, Markos, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Act (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"What sets intentional actions apart from the rest has long been a central question in the philosophy of action. In this book, Markos Valaris offers a novel answer, grounded in a distinctive 'knowledge-first' conception of agential control. Rejecting decompositional accounts that analyse intentional action into separate mental and bodily components, Valaris argues that control is best understood as a capacity for knowledge of a distinctively practical kind. This framework yields a unified account of intentional action and illuminates several live debates in the field, including the ontology of actions as events, the epistemology of intentional action, and the nature of skill"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

The puzzle of agential control

Control as a capacity for knowledge

Intentional action

The epistemology of intentional action

Actions and events

Action and form

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed July 23, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Valaris, Markos Knowledge in action

ISBN:

9781009745727

1009745727

9781009745758

1009745751

OCLC:

1581823356

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license