Wanting and Intending (eBook)
XXIV, 364 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-94-017-7387-4 (ISBN)
This book aims to answer two simple questions: what is it to want and what is it to intend? Because of the breadth of contexts in which the relevant phenomena are implicated and the wealth of views that have attempted to account for them, providing the answers is not quite so simple. Doing so requires an examination not only of the relevant philosophical theories and our everyday practices, but also of the rich empirical material that has been provided by work in social and developmental psychology.
The investigation is carried out in two parts, dedicated to wanting and intending respectively. Wanting is analysed as optative attitudinising, a basic form of subjective standard-setting at the core of compound states such as 'longings', 'desires', 'projects' and 'whims'. The analysis is developed in the context of a discussion of Moore-paradoxicality and deepened through the examination of rival theories, which include functionalist and hedonistic conceptions as well as the guise-of-the-good view and the pure entailment approach, two views popular in moral psychology.
In the second part of the study, a disjunctive genetic theory of intending is developed, according to which intentions are optative attitudes on which, in one way or another, the mark of deliberation has been conferred. It is this which explains intention's subjection to the requirements of practical rationality. Moreover, unlike wanting, intending turns out to be dependent on normative features of our life form, in particular on practices of holding responsible.
The book will be of particular interest to philosophers and psychologists working on motivation, goals, desire, intention, deliberation, decision and practical rationality.
This book aims to answer two simple questions: what is it to want and what is it to intend? Because of the breadth of contexts in which the relevant phenomena are implicated and the wealth of views that have attempted to account for them, providing the answers is not quite so simple. Doing so requires an examination not only of the relevant philosophical theories and our everyday practices, but also of the rich empirical material that has been provided by work in social and developmental psychology.The investigation is carried out in two parts, dedicated to wanting and intending respectively. Wanting is analysed as optative attitudinising, a basic form of subjective standard-setting at the core of compound states such as 'longings', 'desires', 'projects' and 'whims'. The analysis is developed in the context of a discussion of Moore-paradoxicality and deepened through the examination of rival theories, which include functionalist and hedonistic conceptions as well as the guise-of-the-good view and the pure entailment approach, two views popular in moral psychology.In the second part of the study, a disjunctive genetic theory of intending is developed, according to which intentions are optative attitudes on which, in one way or another, the mark of deliberation has been conferred. It is this which explains intention's subjection to the requirements of practical rationality. Moreover, unlike wanting, intending turns out to be dependent on normative features of our life form, in particular on practices of holding responsible.The book will be of particular interest to philosophers and psychologists working on motivation, goals, desire, intention, deliberation, decision and practical rationality.
Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Part 1. Wanting.- 1. The Question of Motivational Unity: Historical Preliminaries.- 1.1. Practical Mind: Aristotle's Question.- 1.2. Plato and the Tripartite Practical Mind.- 1.3. Aristotle and the Problems of Motivational Unity.- 1.4. Hobbes and Double Reductionism.-1.5. Hume and Hedonic Unity.-1.6 From Stevenson to Davidson: "Pro-Attitudes".- 2. Motivational States.- 2.1. Starting Point: The Things We Do.- 2.2. Behaviour.- 2.3. Motivation and Representation.- 2.4. Representational Match and Representational Mode.- 2.5. The Two Dimensions of Motivation.- 2.6. Excursus: Motivating Representations in Non-Human Animals.- 3. Wanting* and its Symptoms.- 3.1. Wanting*: Factoring out Believing and Fuelling.- 3.2. Symptoms of Wanting*.- 3.3. Symptomatic Definition.- 3.4. A Theory of Wanting*: Key Questions and Sketch of Some Answers.- 4. Expressive Explication and the Optative Mode.- 4.1. Moore's Paradox and the Idea of Expressive Explication.- 4.2. Optative and Assertoric Expression.- 4.3. Axiological Conceptions of Wanting*.- 4.4. Wants* as Mere Entailments.- 4.5. Appendix: Direction of Fit and the Internal Normativity of Attitudinising.- 5. Wanting*, Consciousness and Affect.- 5.1. Conscious Occurrentism.- 5.2. Not Really Wanting.- 5.3. Wanting* and Affect.- 5.4. End of Part I.- Part 2. Intending.- 6. Intention, Belief and Commitment.- 6.1. Introduction: The Irreducibility Thesis and the Role of Belief.- 6.2. Intention Expression.- 6.3. The Conceptual Marginality of Belief.- 6.4. Doxastic Symptoms of (Decisional).- 6.5. Summary: Postdecisional Commitment and Belief.- 7. The Intentional Syndrome: Characteristic Causal Features and Rational Requirements.- 7.1. Characteristic Causal Features: Dimensions of Intention Strength.- 7.2. Deontic Consequences: The Intention-Consequential Requirements.- 7.3. The Intentional Syndrome: Taking Stock.- 8. Deciding.- 8.1. Towards a Genetic Disjunctive Theory of Intention: The Itinerary of the Next Three Chapters.-8.2. Decision: Two Not Particularly Helpful Theories.- 8.3. Deciding and Judging.- 8.4. Minimal Inquiry and Judgement.- 8.5. Minimal Deliberation and Decision.- 8.6. Why Decisions are not Actions.- 8.7. Decisions as Deliberation-Terminative Optative Occurrences.- 9. Intentions Decisional and Nondecisional.- 9.1. Decisional Intentions.- 9.2. Five Ways to Nondecisionally Intend.- 9.3. Doxastic Conceptual Constraints.- 9.4. Being Set: Nondecisional Intention and Motivation.- 9.5. Nondecisional Intention and Conscious Wanting*.- 9.6. Leaving the Question Open.- 9.7. Intentions, Decisional and Nondecisional.- 10. The Intention-Consequential Requirements and Anchoring Attributability.- 10.1. Intention Noncognitivism and the IC Requirements.- 10.2. Bratman’s Proposal: Self-Governance and Intention Holism.- 10.3. The IC Requirements, Self-Governance and Normative Functionalism.- 10.4. Anchoring Attributabilityght:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">.- 10.5. Taking Responsibility and Practical Rationality.- 10.6. Conclusion: Intention and Normative Culture.- Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.3.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Philosophical Studies Series | Philosophical Studies Series |
| Zusatzinfo | XXIV, 364 p. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Schlagworte | Anchoring Attributability • Axiological Conceptions of Wanting • Characteristic Causal Features and Rational Requirements • Conscious Occurrentism • Expressive Explication and the Optative Mode • Genetic Disjunctive Theory of Intention • Intentional Syndrome • Intention, Belief and Commitment • Intention-Consequential Requirements • Intentions Decisional and Nondecisional • Moore's Paradox and the Idea of Expressive Explication • Motivational States • Plato and the Tripartite Practical Mind • Question of Motivational Unity • Symptoms of Wanting • Wanting, Consciousness and Affect |
| ISBN-10 | 94-017-7387-4 / 9401773874 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-94-017-7387-4 / 9789401773874 |
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