Knowledge Out of Control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4352095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markos Valaris (0000-0002-7254-3253, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 733-753 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqab059 |
| OpenAlex | W3214942403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 53 |
According to a thesis famously associated with Anscombe'sIntention, knowledge is a necessary condition of intentional action: when acting intentionally, we know what we are doing. Call this the Agential Knowledge thesis. The Agential Knowledge thesis remains, of course, controversial. Furthermore, as even some of its proponents acknowledge, it can appear puzzling: Why should acting intentionally require knowing what you are doing? My aim in this paper is to propose an explanation and defence of the Agential Knowledge thesis, based on the idea that acting intentionally is exercising control, in a relevant sense. My argument rests on two things: first, articulating a modal conception of the relevant sense of control, and, secondly, arguing that agential knowledge is distinctively practical (in a sense I explain). As I explain, the truth of the Agential Knowledge thesis opens promising paths for future work in the philosophy of action
Action (physics · Argument (complex analysis · Cognitive science · Common sense · Control (management · Epistemology · Self-knowledge · Sociology · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Free Will and Agency · Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
Epistemological Disjunctivism
Between Probability and Certainty
Intentional action and side effects in ordinary language
Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology
Intentional action in folk psychology
Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge
Action, Knowledge, and Will
The normality of error
Agential Knowledge, Action and Process
Life and Action
Things in Progress
Unreasonable Knowledge
Explaining Action
Knowledge and the Internal
Modal Virtue Epistemology
Knowledge in Action
The progressive
How Knowledge Works
Actually Knowing
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |