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A note on von Wright's formulation of intentional explanations [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 1979 In a lecture given at Karlsruhe University in the summer of 1975 von Wright tried to defend his formulation (i) against this alternative view. One could ask however on which occasions when A intends to bring about p he in fact performs the action a.
Ansgar Beckermann
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Reasons, Causes, and Intentional Explanation [PDF]
Analyse & Kritik, 1986 Abstract The reasons-causes debate concerns whether explanations of human behavior in terms of an agent's reasons presuppose causal laws. This paper considers three approaches to this debate: the covering law model which holds that there are causal laws covering both reasons and behavior, the intentionalist approach which denies any ...
Frederick Stoutland
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Pluralistic Attitude-Explanation and the Mechanisms of Intentional Action [PDF]
, 2021 According to the Causal Theory of Action (CTA), genuine actions are individuated by their causal history. Actions are bodily movements that are causally explained by citing the agent’s reasons. Reasons are then explained as some combination of propositional attitudes—beliefs, desires, and/or intentions.
Daniel C. Burnston
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Aspects Of Intentional Explanation [PDF]
, 1982 A complete cognitive science will include generalizations explanatory of human behavior which refer to certain internal states of human agents. We investigate various issues in the foundations of cognitive science arising from this observation. In particular, it is argued that the taxonomic descriptions of behavior which occur in generalizations over ...
Neil A Farnsworth
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Intentional Explanations and Teleological Explanations of Animal Behaviour
Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento, 2011 This paper examines two philosophical proposals about the requirements which must be satisfied in order to legitimately apply intentional explanations to non-human animals. Firstly, I evaluate Daniel Dennett’s intentional stance approach, and I present a well-known critique against it: the risk of over-attribution of intentional states that it comports.
Laura Danón
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Lo statuto metodologico dei contenuti intenzionali
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2019 The philosophy of mind debate is characterized by increasing consensus regarding a new type of eliminativism, also known as the radical enactivist theory of mind.
Silvano Zipoli Caiani
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Micro, Macro, and Mechanisms [PDF]
, 2012 This article, which takes a fresh look at micro–macro relations in the social sciences from the point of view of the mechanistic account of explanation, introduces the distinction between causal and constitutive explanation.
Ylikoski, Petri K
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Collective Emotions and Joint Action
Journal of Social Ontology, 2016 In contemporary philosophy of collective intentionality, emotions, feelings, moods, and sentiments do not figure prominently in debates on the explanation and justification of joint action.
Mikko Salmela, Michiru Nagatsu
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Forensic aspects of animal abusing [PDF]
Veterinarski Glasnik, 2008 Animal abuse is important social issue, which includes a wide range of behaviors of humans that are harmful to animals, starting from unintentional neglect to intentional cruelty. Types of animal abuse are different and they can include physical, sexual,
Aleksić Jelena, Jović Slavoljub
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Examining the Functions of Practical Reason in the Process of Issuing Intentional Action in Transcendental Wisdom [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2023 IntroductionMulla Sadra differentiates between "action" and "intentional action". He considers the intentional action as an action, which is caused by second-order consciousness of the purpose of the action (Mulla Sadra 1981, 2/223).
keramat varzdar, fatemeh ketebchi
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