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Ballistic Action

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Stout, Rowland 
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http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11265
Date Issued
08 March 2018
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Abstract
Elizabeth Anscombe argued that a central feature of intentional action is that you know what you are doing without observation. Your knowledge of what you are doing does not come after your action, but is somehow constitutively bound up with it. The doing and the knowing involve either the same or closely related sensitivity; so acting intentionally turns out to be something like exercising your knowledge of what you are doing. She raises a number of problem cases for this principle, including the example of painting a wall yellow. How can you know you are painting a wall yellow without looking to see what colour is emerging on the wall? And those following her have raised further problem cases. Notably, Donald Davidson introduced the example of intentionally making ten legible carbon copies without know that that is what you are doing.
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright (Published Version)
2018 the Authors
Keywords
  • Intentional action

  • Processes

  • Achievements

  • Practical knowledge

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https://global.oup.com/academic/product/process-action-and-experience-9780198777991
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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Stout, R. (eds.). Process, Action and Experience
ISBN
9780198777991
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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