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dc.contributor.advisorHaddock, Adrian
dc.contributor.advisorMillar, Alan
dc.contributor.authorBlomberg Stathopoulos, Alexander C.
dc.coverage.spatialvi, 194 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-14T12:10:14Z
dc.date.available2016-03-14T12:10:14Z
dc.date.issued2016-06-23
dc.identifieruk.bl.ethos.680810
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/8417
dc.description.abstractThis 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 subject. The third step is taken by arguing that the disposition in question must be of a kind which is exercised in conditions in which the acting subject thinks they are acting. From this vantage point the thesis develops many further commitments: That action is constitutively subject to a mode of explanation that mentions the kind of disposition just mentioned; that any case of acting requires a veridical representation of a means by which the action is performed; and that a problem about the underspecified nature of desire ascriptions can be solved by appeal to the conceptual materials made available by these investigations. The thesis finally develops several objections to the account it gives, both substantive and methodological, and explains why these objections ought to be rejected.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectIntentional actionen_US
dc.subjectPractical knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectDesireen_US
dc.subjectBeliefen_US
dc.subjectCircularityen_US
dc.subjectSelf-referenceen_US
dc.subjectDesire ascriptionen_US
dc.subjectPredicationen_US
dc.subjectEventsen_US
dc.subjectBasic actionen_US
dc.subjectAction explanationen_US
dc.subjectCausationen_US
dc.subject.lccB105.A35B6
dc.subject.lcshAct (Philosophy)en_US
dc.titleActing and understandingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorRoyal Institute of Philosophyen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorErik & Gurli Hultengrenen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorGunvor & Josef Anéren_US
dc.contributor.sponsorUniversity of Stirlingen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.publisher.departmentUniversity of Stirling's Philosophy Departmenten_US


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