Intentionality and Action

Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Margit Gaffal, Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Margit Gaffal

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9783110559101
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Filosofía
• Subtopic: Lingüística

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.

List of contributors

Prof. Dr. Kevin MULLIGAN

Université de Genève

Département de philosophie

Rue de Candolle 2

CH-1211 Genève 4 (SWITZERLAND)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Peter SIMONS

Trinity College Dublin

College Green

Dublin 2 (IRLAND)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang KÜNNE

Universität Hamburg

Philosophisches Seminar

Von-Melle-Park 6

D-20146 Hamburg (GERMANY)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Christian BERMES

Lehrstuhl für Philosophie

Universität Koblenz-Landau

Institut für Philosophie

Bürgerstraße 23

D-76829 Landau (GERMANY)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Michel LE DU

Département de philosophie

Faculté de Philosophie

7 Rue de L’ Universite

F-67000 Strasbourg (FRANCE)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Bernhard OBSIEGER

Saint Louis University Madrid Campus

Avenida del Valle, 34

E-28003 Madrid (SPAIN)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Margit GAFFAL

Universidad Complutense, Madrid

Departamento de Filología Inglesa, I

Avenida de Filipinas, 3

E-28003 MADRID (SPAIN)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. António MARQUES

Instituto de Filosofia da Nova

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Av. de Berna, 26,4o̱ Piso

1069-061 Lisboa (PORTUGAL)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Severin SCHROEDER

Department of Philosophy

Whiteknights Campus, HumSS G68

University of Reading

Reading RG6 6AA (UNITED KINGDOM)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Amir HOROWITZ

Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies

The Open University of Israel

1 University Road

P. O. Box 808

Raanana 43107 (ISRAEL)

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Jesús PADILLA GÁLVEZ

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales

San Pedro Mártir, s/n

E-45071 Toledo (SPAIN)

e-mail: [email protected]

Endnotes

1 Aristoteles, Nicomachean Ethics, 1141b 14–20. Aristoteles, De Motu Animalium, 701a 12–14.

2 Ibn Sina, Kitab al-Isharat wa-'l-tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions). Ed. S. Dunya, Cairo, 1960, Vol. II, 343–346. Domenicus Gundissalinus, De Processione Mundi. Eds. M. J. Soto Bruna, C. Alonso del Real. Pamplona, Eunsa, 1999. Thomae Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles. Edition Leonina manualis. Torino, Marietti, 1948.

3 Franz Brentano, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. Ed. Linda L. McAlister. London, Routledge, 1995, 88f.

4 Edmund Husserl, Logische Untersuchungen. Zweiter Teil: Untersuchungen zur Phänomenologie und Theorie der Erkenntnis. Niemeyer, Halle 1901, cf.: V. Über intentionale Erlebnisse und ihre “Inhalte”, 322 ff.

5 Aristoteles, Nicomachean Ethics, 1141b 14–20.

6 G. Frege, Der Gedanke. Eine logische Untersuchung, Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus. Vol. I, 1918–1919, 58–77.

7 G. E. M., Anscombe, 1963, Intention, 2nd edition. Oxford, Blackwell, 1.

8 D. Davidson, 1963, ‘Actions, Reasons, and Causes’, reprinted in Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1980, 3–20. Cf.: 5–8.

9 D. Davidson, 1978, ‘Intending,’ reprinted in Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1980, 83–102.

10 G. H. von Wright, 1972: On So-Called Practical Inferences, Acta Sociologica, 15, 39–53.

11 G. E. M., Anscombe, 1963, Intention, 2nd edition. Oxford, Blackwell, 39–40.

12 H.P. Grice, 1971: ‘Intention and Uncertainty’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 57, 263–279. See: 264–266.

13 D. Davidson, 1978, ‘Intending’, in: Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1980, 83–102. See: 91 and 100.

14 D. Davidson, 1971: ‘Agency,’ repri...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Intentionality and Action
• Intentionality, Reasons and Motives
• Heads 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