Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Anscombe’s Intention

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 Elizabeth Anscombe and Intention......Page 23
Anscombe’s times......Page 24
Oxford philosophy......Page 26
Anscombe’s faith......Page 30
Intention’s influence......Page 33
Suggested reading......Page 37
2 Three tasks for Intention......Page 39
The genesis of Anscombe’s Intention......Page 41
Modern moral philosophy......Page 44
Intended and foreseen consequences......Page 50
Intention with which......Page 52
An account of action......Page 53
Notes......Page 58
Suggested reading......Page 59
3 ‘The subject under three heads’......Page 60
The subject introduced under three heads......Page 61
The ‘connective’ approach......Page 62
‘We are in the dark about the character of the concept’ (§1)......Page 69
What is this description for?......Page 76
‘A tool for the philosophy of action’......Page 78
The structure of Intention......Page 85
Notes......Page 88
Suggested reading......Page 89
4 Intentional action (§§5–19)......Page 90
The question ‘Why?’ (§§5–18)......Page 91
‘It was involuntary’ and reason vs cause (§§5–11)......Page 94
Known without observation (§8)......Page 96
Involuntary movements (§§7–11)......Page 105
Intention, motive, cause, reason (§§10–14)......Page 110
Voluntary vs intentional actions (§§17–19)......Page 119
Notes......Page 122
Suggested reading......Page 124
5 Intention with which (§§20–40)......Page 126
Intentional actions, further intentions in acting, intentions for the future (§§20–21)......Page 127
Doing X in order to do Y (§22)......Page 133
Doing Y in doing X (§§23–28)......Page 137
Non observational knowledge? (§§29–33)......Page 145
Practical reasoning as ‘ordinary reasoning’ (§§33–34)......Page 151
The idea of logical compulsion (§33)......Page 154
Wanting (§§34–40)......Page 158
Notes......Page 160
Suggested reading......Page 163
6 The character of the concept of intention (§§42–49)......Page 164
Form of description of events (§§46–48)......Page 165
Diagnosing the Cartesian impulse......Page 171
Practical knowledge (§§28–32, §§45–48)......Page 174
Notes......Page 188
Suggested reading......Page 189
7 Expressions of intention for the future (§§2–3 and §§50–52)......Page 190
The place of expressions of intention for the future in Intention......Page 191
Species of prediction (§§2–3)......Page 192
‘I am going to do it unless...’......Page 199
Intention and the future......Page 202
Notes......Page 205
Suggested reading......Page 206
Bibliography......Page 207
Index......Page 214