Hinshelwood, A;
(2013)
The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Settling: Some Anscombean Reservations.
Inquiry
, 56
(6)
625 - 638.
10.1080/0020174X.2013.841044.
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Abstract
Helen Steward accepts what I call the Separation Thesis, the main tenet of which is that the movements one’s body makes when one acts are the causal results of one’s actions. I claim that this threatens to generate a pair of epistemic shortfalls: first, our perception of others’ bodily movements may not reach to their actions themselves; and, second, our own ‘knowledge in intention’ may not reach to the actual bodily movements in which the efficacy of our actions consists. I suggest we should adopt a slogan that Anscombe considered, and say ‘I do what happens’ when I am acting. Then the movements one’s body makes when one acts are seen simply to be one’s actions.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Settling: Some Anscombean Reservations |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0020174X.2013.841044 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2013.841044 |
| Language: | English |
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| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1457060 |
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