Things That Happen Because They Should
A Teleological Approach to Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8081065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rex Stout (0000-0002-1834-590X, corresponding author), Rowland Stout |
| Year | 1996 |
| Pages | 189 |
| Publication date | 1996-10-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Things that happen because they should (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198240631.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W168967832 |
| Open Library | OL982475M |
| ISBN | 9780198240631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
With enormous implications for philosophy, the law and all areas of human interactivity, the author argues that amongst all the natural phenomena, intentional actions are unique in that they occur because they should
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Appeal · CITES · Epistemology · Externalism · Internalism and externalism · Natural (archaeology · Natural kind · Political science · Teleology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Act (philosophy) · History · Law · Philosophy
The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
Reasons Require Conceptual Contents
Belief and Experience
Epistemological Consequences and Criticisms
Historical‐Epistemological Context
Developments and Consequences
The Theory of Motivating States
Experience and Reason
Acting for a Good Reason
Reasons and Desires
The Epistemological Outlook
Reasons and Beliefs
As I Believe
Consequential Matters
Reasons for Action
The Rational Role of Perceptual Experiences
How Many Explanations?
Peirce's Theory of Signs
Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states?
Teleological Causation
A Naturalistic Perspective on Knowledge How
Direct Manipulation Undermines Intentional Agency (Not Just Free Agency)
Trust the process? Hyloenergeism and biological processualism
The disappearing agent as an exclusion problem
Christian Wolff über motivierende Gründe und handlungsrelevante Irrtümer
Agential Knowledge, Action and Process
Perception and Reason
The Explanation of Action in History
From potency to act
Knowledge and agential control
Anti-intellectualism, instructive representations, and the intentional action argument
Explaining Action
Are there subintentional actions
An attempt at a general solution to the problem of deviant causal chains
Practical Reality
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,46 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |