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Title Essays on Anscombe's Intention [electronic resource] / edited by Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby, and Frederick Stoutland.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Description viii, 313 p.
Note "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction : Anscombe's Intention in context / Frederick Stoutland -- Summary of Anscombe's Intention / Frederick Stoutland -- Anscombe on expression of intention : an exegesis / Richard Moran and Martin J. Stone -- Action and generality / Anton Ford -- Actions in their circumstances / Jennifer Hornsby -- Anscombe on bodily self-knowledge / John McDowell -- The knowledge that a man has of his intentional actions / Adrian Haddock -- Knowledge of intention / Kieran Setiya -- Anscombe's Intention and practical knowledge / Michael Thompson -- Forms of practical knowledge and their unity / Sebastian Rodl -- Backward-looking rationality and the unity of practical reason / Anselm Muller -- An Anscombian approach to collective action / Ben Laurence.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret). Intention -- Congresses.
Intention (Logic) -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ford, Anton.
Hornsby, Jennifer.
Stoutland, Frederick.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674051027 (alk. paper)
9780674060937 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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