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Category: Action Theory (Philosophy of Action)

Forum on “Intentional Action Without Knowledge” (Guest contributor Matt King)

David Shoemaker / On Posted onDecember 21, 2020December 21, 2020 / (33) Comments

Recently, Romy Vekony, Alfred Mele, and David Rose published “Intentional Action without Knowledge” in Synthese. Here’s a link. Matt King disagrees with them.  » …Read more

An argument for holism about practical rationality

Ralph Wedgwood / On Posted onOctober 10, 2020 / (10) Comments

What fundamentally exemplifies the property of practical rationality?

  • According to atomism, it is fundamentally each particular intention that an agent might have at a time that counts as either rational or irrational for the agent to have at that time.
  •  » …Read more

NOWAR 5! Call for Abstracts

David Shoemaker / On Posted onNovember 25, 2018November 25, 2018 / (0) Comments

This is a call for abstracts for the fifth biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR 5), to be held in New Orleans,  » …Read more

Interview Series on Philosophy of Action

David Shoemaker / On Posted onSeptember 16, 2018September 15, 2018 / (0) Comments

Istvan Zardai (Keio University) has been conducting and posting some very cool “mini-interviews” with leading philosophers of action over the past year, on the site Philosophy of Action.  » …Read more

Manipulation Cases and Responsibility: What’s doing the work?

David Shoemaker / On Posted onJanuary 15, 2018 / (21) Comments

I’ll try to keep this brief, and so will likely run roughshod over important points. I’m curious about what’s doing the work on our intuitions in so-called manipulation cases when people deploy them to theorize about responsibility.  » …Read more

NOWAR 4 Program

David Shoemaker / On Posted onMay 9, 2017May 9, 2017 / (0) Comments

The program for the 4th biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR 4) has been set. It is pasted below the fold. The workshop takes place in New Orleans on November 2-4,  » …Read more

Decisive Reasons and Rational Supererogation

Chrisoula Andreou / On Posted onMarch 8, 2017March 8, 2017 / (4) Comments

I have a roughly formulated and half-baked inquiry:

Suppose that rationality endorses maximizing utility, but there is room for rational supererogation, and so it is sometimes rationally permissible to drink a coffee even if doing so does not maximize utility.  » …Read more

Over-Incarceration, Charge-Stacking, and Mens Rea

David Shoemaker / On Posted onSeptember 16, 2016September 16, 2016 / (13) Comments

There has come to be some consensus amongst political scientists and legal theorists that a major source of over-incarceration in the United States is (mostly county) prosecutors filing a significantly increased number of charges against individual arrestees (e.g.,  » …Read more

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