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37Wittgenstein and Communication Technology – A Conversation between Richard Harper and Constantine SandisPhilosophical Investigations 41 (2): 241-262. 2018.This paper documents a conversation between a philosopher and a human computer interaction researcher whose research has been enormously influenced by Wittgenstein. In particular, the in vivo use of categories in the design of communications and AI technologies are discussed, and how this meaning needs to evolve to allow creative design to flourish. The paper will be of interest to anyone concerned with philosophical tools in everyday action.
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36Hegel on PurposeHegel Bulletin 40 (3): 444-463. 2019.In this paper we propose a new interpretation of Hegel's views on action and responsibility, defending it against its most plausible exegetical competitors.1Any exposition of Hegel will face both terminological and substantive challenges, and so we place, from the outset, some interpretative constraints. The paper divides into two parts. In part one, we point out that Hegel makes a number of distinctions which any sensible account of responsibility should indeed make. Our aim here is to show tha…Read more
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35Modern Moral Philosophy Before and AfterEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 64 0039-62. 2020.This paper argues that there was considerably more philosophy of action in moral theory before 1958 (when Anscombe complained of its lack under the banner 'philosophy of psychology') than there has been since. This is in part because Anscombe influenced the formation of 'virtue theory' as yet another position within normative ethics, and her work contributed to the fashioning of 'moral psychology' as an altogether distinct (and now increasingly empirical) branch of moral philosophy.
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32Period and Place: Collingwood and Wittgenstein on Understanding OthersCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 22 (1): 167-193. 2016.
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32Reasoning to actionPhilosophical Explorations 23 (2): 180-186. 2020.Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2020, Page 180-186.
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28Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics of Politics: Selected Essays (Vol. 2) Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (1): 49-51. 2008.
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28The Metaphysics of Action: Trying, Doing, CausingPhilosophical Quarterly 70 (280): 657-660. 2020.The Metaphysics of Action: Trying, Doing, Causing. By Ruben David-Hillel., ISBN 9783319903460.)
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26New essays on the explanation of action * by Constantine sandis (review)Analysis 70 (1): 193-196. 2010.The anthology contains twenty-two essays and is divided into two parts. The essays are, in the main, critical responses to aspects of what has come to be known in action theory as the ‘Standard View’ – the view that traces back to Donald Davidson's contribution to twentieth-century philosophy of action. The view under criticism treats actions as bodily movements caused in a non-deviant way by belief–desire pairs, construes these belief–desire pairs as the primary reasons for the actions that the…Read more
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25An Honest Display of Fakery: Replicas and the Role of MuseumsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 79 241-259. 2016.This essay brings together questions from aesthetic theory and museum management. In particular, I relate a contextualist account of the value of copies to a pluralistic understanding of the purpose of museums. I begin by offering a new defence of the no longer fashionable view that the aesthetic (as opposed to the ethical, personal, monetary, historical, or other) value of artworks may be detached from questions regarding their provenance. My argument is partly based on a distinction between th…Read more
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25No Picnic: Cavell on Rule‐DescriptionsPhilosophical Investigations 44 (3): 295-317. 2021.In his first paper, ‘Must We Mean What We Say?’, Stanley Cavell defended the methods of ordinary language philosophy against various charges made by his senior colleague, Benson Mates, under the influence of the empirical semantics of Arne Naess.1 Cavell’s argument hinges on the claim that native speakers are a source of evidence for 'what is said' in language and, accordingly, need not base their claims about ordinary language upon evidence. In what follows, I maintain that this defence against…Read more
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24Stephen Mulhall, Philosophical Myths of the Fall Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 27 (1): 60-62. 2007.
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24The Man Who Mistook his Handlung for a Tat: Hegel on Oedipus and Other Tragic ThebansHegel Bulletin 31 (2): 35-60. 2010.Throughout his work Hegel distinguishes between the notion of an act from the standpoint of the agent and that of all other standpoints. He terms the formerHandlung and the latterTat. This distinction should not be confused with the contemporary one between action andmerebodily movement. For one, bothHandlungandTatare aspects of conduct that results from the will,viz. Tun. Moreover, Hegel's taxonomy is motivated purely by concerns relating to modes of perception. So whereas theorists such as Don…Read more
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24Anthony SR Manstead, Nico Frijda, and Agneta Fischer, eds., Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (2): 123-125. 2005.
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21Philosophy of Action: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2015._The Philosophy of Action: An Anthology_ is an authoritative collection of key work by top scholars, arranged thematically and accompanied by expert introductions written by the editors. This unique collection brings together a selection of the most influential essays from the 1960s to the present day. An invaluable collection that brings together a selection of the most important classic and contemporary articles in philosophy of action, from the 1960’s to the present day No other broad-ranging…Read more
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18Wittgenstein on Causation and InductionIn Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-blackwell. 2017.Wittgenstein's earlier treatment of causation and induction remains thought‐provoking and relevant to contemporary debates in the philosophy of science. Wittgenstein's approach to causation and induction in the Tractatus emerges in the context of two separate, but related discussions. A negative discussion that aims to expose a particular understanding of natural necessity as nonsensical, and a more positive discussion concerning the role played by laws in the natural sciences. In the Tractatus,…Read more
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18Hegel on action (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2010.This volume focuses on Hegel's philosophy of action in connection to current concerns. Including key papers by Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John McDowell, as well as eleven especially commissioned contributions by leading scholars in the field, it aims to readdress the dialogue between Hegel and contemporary philosophy of action. Topics include: the nature of action, reasons and causes; explanation and justification of action; social and narrative aspects of agency; the inner and the …Read more
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18The public expression of penitenceTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 141-152. 2012.
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17Basic Actions and IndividuationIn Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Basic Actions Action Individuation References Further reading.
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14Human Nature (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.An understanding of human nature has been central to the work of some of the greatest philosophical thinkers including Plato, Descartes, Hume, Hobbes, Rousseau, Freud and Marx. Questions such as 'what is human nature?', 'is there such a thing as an exclusively human nature?', 'through what methods might we best discover more about our nature?', and 'to what extent are our actions and beliefs constrained by it?' are of central importance not only to philosophy, but to our general understanding of…Read more