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Actions, emotions and beliefs, part II

Anne J. Jacobson

pp. 150-166

Abstract

This chapter makes the case against the general applicability of a standard view of action explanation. On the standard view, Fodorian mental representations provide the propositional attitudes that are our reasons for acting. In such an account, there is often an implicit appeal to a Davidsonian conception (Davidson, 2001; Schlosser, 2011). Reasons for action consist of a belief and desire (in some very general sense of those words) that cause the action, where the belief and desire are of the form: I believe that if I do X then I will get Y; I want Y.

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Jacobson Anne J. (2013) Keeping the world in mind: mental representations and the sciences of the mind. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 150-166

DOI: 10.1057/9781137315588_11

Full citation:

Jacobson Anne J. (2013) Actions, emotions and beliefs, part II, In: Keeping the world in mind, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 150–166.