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11Acting and understandingDissertation, St. Andrews. 2016.This thesis concerns the question of what it is for a subject to act. It answers this question in three steps. The first step is taken by arguing that any satisfactory answer must build on the idea that an action is something predicable of the acting subject. The second step is taken by arguing in support of an answer which does build on this idea, and does so by introducing the idea that acting is doing something which is an exercise of a particular kind of disposition on the part of the acting…Read more
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61Acting and UnderstandingDissertation, University of St. Andrews. 2016.This thesis concerns the question of what it is for a subject to act. It answers this question in three steps. The first step is taken by arguing that any satisfactory answer must build on the idea that an action is something predicable of the acting subject. The second step is taken by arguing in support of an answer which does build on this idea, and does so by introducing the idea that acting is doing something which is an exercise of a particular kind of disposition on the part of the acting…Read more
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337Knowing AchievementsPhilosophy 91 (3): 361-374. 2016.Anscombe claims that whenever a subject is doing something intentionally, this subject knows that they are doing it. This essay defends Anscombe's claim from an influential set of counterexamples, due to Davidson. It argues that Davidson's counterexamples are tacit appeals to an argument, on which knowledge can't be essential to doing something intentionally, because some things that can be done intentionally require knowledge of future successes, and because such knowledge can't ever be guarant…Read more
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 2016
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Areas of Interest
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Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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