Action, Knowledge, and Will by Hyman, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Dedication Preface Epigraph 1 Agency and the Will

1.1 Introduction 1.2 Agency and voluntariness 1.3 Voluntary passivity and involuntary activity 1.4 Wittgenstein on the will 1.5 Ryle on volitions 1.6 Conclusion

2 Action and Integration

2.1 Locke on the idea of active power 2.2 Chauvinism about action 2.3 Action and causation 2.4 Action and integration 2.5 Action and intention

3 Acts and Events

3.1 Action and motion 3.2 Acts and events 3.3 Acts and relations 3.4 Conclusion

4 Voluntariness and Choice

4.1 Voluntariness and guilt 4.2 An antinomy about duress 4.3 Is ‘voluntary’ ambiguous? 4.4 Voluntariness, compulsion, and consent 4.5 Voluntariness, choice, and obligation 4.6 Voluntariness, ability, and choice 4.7 Desire and causation

5 Desire and Intention

5.1 A turning of the tide 5.2 Desires and dispositions 5.3 The explanation of intentional action 5.4 Wittgenstein and Anscombe 5.5 Dispositions and deviant causal chains 5.6 Aims and intentions 5.7 Summary

6 Reason and Knowledge

6.1 Reasons, justifications, and explanations 6.2 Reasons, grounds, and intentions 6.3 Reasons, grounds, and explanations 6.4 Reasons, grounds, and knowledge 6.5 Conclusion

7 Knowledge as an Ability

7.1 Introduction 7.2 How knowledge gets expressed 7.3 Objections and replies 7.4 Our knowledge of our own mental states 7.5 Conclusion

8 The Road to Larissa

8.1 The tree of knowledge 8.2 The Meno puzzle 8.3 Plato’s solution to the puzzle 8.4 An elaboration of Plato’s solution 8.5 A new solution

Appendix: The Modern Theory of the Will Bibliography Acknowledgements Index