LAST EVENTS
"Knowledge and control"
ILCLI Open Seminar
Intentional action is, in some sense, non-accidental, and one common way action theorists have attempted to explain this is with reference to control. The idea, in short, is that intentional action implicates control, and control precludes accidentality. But in virtue of what, exactly, would exercising control over an action suffice to make it non-accidental in whatever sense is required for the action to be intentional? Some have recently argued that control is non-accidental in virtue of requiring knowledge. I will argue that knowledge-centered accounts of control do not work, and that it is rather control that explains the presence of knowledge in intentional action.
Joshua Shepherd
Carleton University
VIDEOS
![Mixel Aurnague, "A semantic framework for the analysis of motion expression in French" [15-05-2024]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zi2vOMAIxe4/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Heidi Maibon, "How to think about co-experienced emotions" [07-02-2024]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0HWVS7-E2Hw/hqdefault.jpg)
![Miguel Ángel Sebastián, "Perspectival Information and the Knowledge Argument" [11-01-2024]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ppCEnWxJxZg/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Valentina Petrolini, "Diagnosis and Identity: Disentangling the Relationship" [29-11-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bS9vPTjw_Ig/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Peter Hanks, "Acts of Address and Acts of Reference" [11-08-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KH-lQamLoaw/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Peter Pagin, "Conceptual change and communication" [11-08-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ooFN_w0F9A4/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Irati Zubia, "On bullshit: How can indifference toward truth be characterized?" [10-19-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ewuzMK7Bbd4/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Shannon Bain, "Reflexive Content, Use Conditions, and Modal Normativism." [8-03-2023]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wtG1yNXnczo/maxresdefault.jpg)
The research group on Language, Action, and Thought ---at the Institute of Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI)--- mostly focuses on the Philosophy of Language and Mind as well as on the Philosophy of Action. Most of its members are philosophers but it also includes linguists, psychologists and logicians.
An important part of our research has evolved around Critical Pragmatics, a theory created and developed by some of us, with applications to the study of linguistic communication, and important assumptions and implications about thought and action.
During the last decade, we have received several grants from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the Basque Government and the Government of Spain.
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