INTENTIONS, AKRASIA, AND MERE PERMISSIBILITY

• Autorzy: Jonathan Way
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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Something is wrong with akrasia, means-end incoherence, and intention inconsistency. This observation has led many philosophers to postulate ‘wide-scope’ requirements against these combinations of attitudes. But other philosophers have argued that this is unwarranted. They claim that we can explain what is wrong with these combinations of attitudes by appealing only to plausible independent claims about reasons for particular beliefs and intentions. In this paper, I argue that these philosophers may well be right about akrasia but that they are wrong about means-end incoherence and intention inconsistency. While it is plausibly impossible to be akratic while having no specific attitude (or lack of an attitude) that you should not have, it is possible to be means-end incoherent or to have inconsistent intentions while having no specific attitude you should not have. There is thus a strong motivation for accepting wide-scope requirements against means-end incoherence and intention inconsistency which does not apply to akrasia. This result offers support to a view of means-end coherence and intention consistency I have defended elsewhere.

Słowa kluczowe

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AKRASIA; INTENTIONS; PERMISSIBILITY

• Wydawca: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Czasopismo: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: 20
• Numer: 4
• Strony: 588 – 611

Twórcy

autor

Jonathan Way

• Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, Southampton SO 17 1BF, United Kingdom,