1st Edition
Trying Without Willing An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
By Timothy Cleveland
Copyright 1997
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Within the context of a critique of volitional accounts of action based on trying, Trying Without Willing articulates a conception of intentional action based on the notion of de re intention. A central theme is that volitional theories of action based on the concept of trying presuppose dubious Cartesian assumptions about the nature of mind and mental states. There is an original account of... Read more
Contents: Volitionism, trying and the mental in physical action; Trying, willing and truth-conditions; Trying, conditional Cartesianism, and knowledge of one’s own actions; Natural kinds, physical actions and psychological essentialism; Act descriptions, basic actions and trying; Trying, paralysis and de re intentionality; Trying, teleology and interpretation; Index.
Biography
Timothy Cleveland
’His non -volitional account is developed by considering one of the most compelling arguments in favour of trying as willing...’ Bibliographie de La Philosophie '...Cleveland provides thorough discussion and criticism of important volitionist arguments...' The Philosophical Review
