Stina Bäckström
Biographic Data
| ID | 4427780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stina Bäckström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stina |
| FAMILY NAME | Bäckström |
| SIGNATURE | BÄCKSTRÖM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Asymmetry of Telling in advance
In a growing body of literature, speech is theorized in terms of joint action. According to this conception, the social nature of central speech acts, such as telling, is to be understood in terms of a symmetrical inter-agential structure: a structure where two participants, speaker and hearer, are engaged in the act as co-agents. We distinguish between productive and non-productive varieties of such joint action theories and argue that both vari…
A dogma of speech act theory
In this article I argue that the distinction between illocutionary and perlocutionary acts needs examination, not just in its details but in its philosophical standing. We need to consider whether the distinction is motivated by (sometimes unwittingly) assumed problematic philosophical assumptions concerning the nature of our dependence on the words of others and the rationality of speech reception. Working with an example of the act of telling, …
Decent Policing
The status of the police as a profession in democratic societies is a contested issue. At stake is whether the police have an autonomous field of action related to a set of important values, or whether they are simply upholding and executing a set of given rules. In recent research, this issue has been framed in terms of two opposing sets of attitudes among police officers: legalism and autonomy. Even though their precise definitions vary the ter…
Spontaneous expression and intentional action
When spontaneous expressions such as smiling or crying have been at issue in Anglophone philosophy of action, the touchstone has been Donald Davidson’s belief-desire account of action. In this essay, I take a different approach. I use Elizabeth Anscombe’s formal conception of intentional action to capture the distinction and unity between intentional action and spontaneous expression. Anscombe’s strategy is to restrict her inquiry to the class of…
Decent Policing
The status of the police as a profession in democratic societies is a contested issue. At stake is whether the police have an autonomous field of action related to a set of important values, or whether they are simply upholding and executing a set of given rules. In recent research, this issue has been framed in terms of two opposing sets of attitudes among police officers: legalism and autonomy. Even though their precise definitions vary the ter…
Spontaneous expression and intentional action
When spontaneous expressions such as smiling or crying have been at issue in Anglophone philosophy of action, the touchstone has been Donald Davidson’s belief-desire account of action. In this essay, I take a different approach. I use Elizabeth Anscombe’s formal conception of intentional action to capture the distinction and unity between intentional action and spontaneous expression. Anscombe’s strategy is to restrict her inquiry to the class of…
Decent Policing
The status of the police as a profession in democratic societies is a contested issue. At stake is whether the police have an autonomous field of action related to a set of important values, or whether they are simply upholding and executing a set of given rules. In recent research, this issue has been framed in terms of two opposing sets of attitudes among police officers: legalism and autonomy. Even though their precise definitions vary the ter…
A dogma of speech act theory
In this article I argue that the distinction between illocutionary and perlocutionary acts needs examination, not just in its details but in its philosophical standing. We need to consider whether the distinction is motivated by (sometimes unwittingly) assumed problematic philosophical assumptions concerning the nature of our dependence on the words of others and the rationality of speech reception. Working with an example of the act of telling, …
The Asymmetry of Telling in advance
In a growing body of literature, speech is theorized in terms of joint action. According to this conception, the social nature of central speech acts, such as telling, is to be understood in terms of a symmetrical inter-agential structure: a structure where two participants, speaker and hearer, are engaged in the act as co-agents. We distinguish between productive and non-productive varieties of such joint action theories and argue that both vari…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Speech act (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Analogy (1 work)