Webber, J. (2002) Doing without representation: coping with Dreyfus. Philosophical Explorations, 5 (1). pp. 82-88. ISSN 1741-5918
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Abstract
Hubert Dreyfus argues that the traditional and currently dominant conception of an action, as an event initiated or governed by a mental representation of a possible state of affairs that the agent is trying to realise, is inadequate. If Dreyfus is right, then we need a new conception of action. I argue, however, that the considerations that Dreyfus adduces show only that an action need not be initiated or governed by a conceptual representation, but since a representation need not be conceptually structured, do not show that we need a conception of action that does not involve representation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2002 Taylor & Francis Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Philosophical Explorations. |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
| Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
| Date Deposited: | 23 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2013 16:49 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/1215 |
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