Dear all,
This Thursday (Nov 24) the Serious Metaphysics Group will meet for the last time this term - Luke Cash will be presenting 'The order of thought and action' (abstract below). The seminar will be at 1.00-2.30pm, at the Philosophy faculty board room. Feel free to bring lunch along. Best wishes, Li Li -- ABSTRACT Anscombe and Davidson apparently disagree over the individuation of action. For Davidson, an action is a bodily movement (caused in some 'right way' by the agent's mental states), whereas, for Anscombe, 'I do what happens' (and since what happens might involve, say, a ship's sinking, action extends beyond the body). Then again, Davidson would readily agree that a bodily movement can receive a post hoc re-description in terms of its effects. I move my arm, thereby causing a button to depress, thereby causing a torpedo to launch, and thereby causing the Tirpitz to sink. So, I sank the Tirpitz. And Anscombe would hardly deny that are causal relations in play here. Considerations such as these can make the disagreement look pretty trivial. In the first half of my talk, then, I am going to explain why the dispute does in fact matter and, indeed, why Anscombe is right. The second part will then be devoted to expounding a positive Anscombian account of the relation between practical reason and intentional action. -- Li Li Tan PhD Candidate in Philosophy St Catharine's College _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
