Recently, Romy Vekony, Alfred Mele, and David Rose published “Intentional Action without Knowledge” in Synthese. Here’s a link. Matt King disagrees with them. He has […] Read More
Category: Action Theory (Philosophy of Action)
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 […] Read More
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
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
John Brunero and I are running a conference on Practical Reason and Metaethics, here in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 21st to 23rd. Speakers include Michael […] Read More