Intention
| Title | Intention |
|---|---|
| Author | by G. E. M. Anscombe |
| Publication | Blackwell |
| Size | IX, 94p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
Philosophy--Analytical Philosophy--English--20th century Philosophy of mind Agent (Philosophy) Logic (Psychology) |
| Notes | The author's monograph is generally recognised as her greatest and most influential work, and the continuing philosophical interest in the concepts of intention, action and practical reasoning can be said to have taken its main impetus from this work. The aim was to make plain the character of human action and will. Anscombe approaches the matter through the concept of intention, which, as she notes, has three modes of appearance in our language. Her main purpose is to comprehend the way in which human thought and understanding and conceptualisation relate to the "events in a man's history", or the goings on to which he is subject. The intentions with which we act are identified by the reasons we give in answer to questions concerning why we perform actions. Such reasons usually form a hierarchy that constitutes a practical syllogism of which action itself is the conclusion. Hence our actions are a form of active practical knowledge that normally leads to action. Anscombe compares the direction of fit of such knowledge to a shopping list's relation to one's purchases, and contrasts it with the direction of fit characteristic of a list of those purchases made by someone observing one shopping. She contends that the mistake of post-medieval philosophy is to think that all knowledge is of the latter kind. [wikipedia] |
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