Peet, A (2023) Contrastive Intentions. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 9 (4). pp. 742-761. ISSN 2053-4477
Abstract
This paper introduces and argues for contrastivism about intentions. According to contrastivism, intention is not a binary relation between an agent and an action. Rather, it is a ternary relation between an agent, an action, and an alternative. Contrastivism is introduced via a discussion of cases of known but (apparently) unintended side effects. Such cases are puzzling. They put pressure on us to reject a number of highly compelling theses about intention, intentional action, and practical reason. And they give rise to a puzzle about rather-than constructions such as ‘I intend to ϕ rather than ψ’: In side effect cases it can seem wrong to claim that the subject intends to ϕ yet acceptable to claim that they intend to ϕ rather than ψ. This cries out for explanation. Contrastivism provides a unified response to all of these problems.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2023. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | ||||
Keywords: | intentions, intentional action, contrastivism, partial intention, choice | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Leeds | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications | ||||
Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2022 13:29 | ||||
Last Modified: | 08 Jan 2024 16:49 | ||||
Status: | Published | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.33 |
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