Dear all,
Just a reminder that tomorrow (Wednesday 26th) the Serious Metaphysics Group will meet at 11am, and Lucy Campbell will give a talk entitled _Why Intentions are not (always) Propositional Attitudes_. Further details are attached below. Best wishes, Matthew Simpson On 22-02-2014 20:41, Matthew Simpson wrote: > Dear all, > > The next meeting of the Serious Metaphysics Group will take place on > Wednesday 26th Feb, 11am-12.30pm in the philosophy board room. Our speaker is > Lucy Campbell who will be giving a talk entitled _Why Intentions are not > (always) Propositional Attitudes_ (abstract below). > > I hope to see you there. > > Best wishes, > > Matthew Simpson > > Lucy Campbell - _Why Intentions are not (always) Propositional Attitudes_ > > "Intentions are often thought of as, like beliefs, propositional attitudes. I > argue that if we accept a plausible assumption about > what it takes to execute an intention, then the view that all intentions have > propositional contents leads to a problematic regress. Two options then > arise: accept that at least some intentions are not propositional attitudes, > or reject the seeming-plausible assumption. I argue that the assumption > cannot be happily rejected and that we should therefore reject the view that > intentions are per se propositional attitudes. I close by considering what > the objects of intentions might be where those intentions are not > propositional attitudes." > > -- > Matthew Simpson > PhD Student in Philosophy > University of Cambridge > Mail: Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN > > _____________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, > or change your membership options, please visit > the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents [1] > > List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive [2] > > Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email > attachments. See the list information page for further > details and suggested alternatives. -- Matthew Simpson PhD Student in Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN Links: ------ [1] http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents [2] http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
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