Essays on Anscombe's Intention
By: edited by Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby, Frederick Stoutland
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780674051027
Subjects: Congresses; Intention (Logic)
Notes: "This volume of essays originated in two conferences. The first, in September 2008, was held at the Philosophy Department of the University of Uppsala, sponsored jointly by the five year program Understanding Agency centered in Uppsala, and the Rational Agency section of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo. The second was a Lipkind conference at the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, held in April 2009 in honour of the 50th anniversary of Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Anscombe's Intention in context / Frederick Stoutland; title: Summary of Anscombe's Intention / Frederick Stoutland; title: Anscombe on expression of intention : an exegesis / Richard Moran and Martin J. Stone; title: Action and generality / Anton Ford; title: Actions in their circumstances / Jennifer Hornsby; title: Anscombe on bodily self-knowledge / John McDowell; title: The knowledge that a man has of his intentional actions / Adrian Haddock; title: Knowledge of intention / Kieran Setiya; title: Anscombe's Intention and practical knowledge / Michael Thompson; title: Forms of practical knowledge and their unity / Sebastian Rodl; title: Backward-looking rationality and the unity of practical reason / Anselm Muller; title: An Anscombian approach to collective action / Ben Laurence.