Naturalizing Intention in Action (A Bradford Book)

ISBN 10: 0262013673 / ISBN 13: 9780262013673

Published by A Bradford Book, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Naturalizing Intention in Action (A Bradford Book)
• Publisher: A Bradford Book
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262013673
• ISBN 13: 9780262013673
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

An interdisciplinary integration of theoretical and empirical approaches to the question of intentional action.

Intention was seen traditionally as a philosophical concept, before being debated more recently from psychological and social perspectives. Today the cognitive sciences approach intention empirically, at the level of its underlying mechanisms. This naturalization of intention makes it more concrete and graspable by empirical sciences. This volume offers an interdisciplinary integration of current research on intentional processes naturalized through action, drawing on the theoretical and empirical approaches of cognitive neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and sociology. Each chapter integrates several disciplinary perspectives. Taken together, the chapters show that the reunification of the different dimensions of intentional processes may constitute an adequate basis for a general model of intentional processes and their links to action. This can be applied at various levels, from neuronal activity to self-constitution, from the expression of intentional actions at the individual level to their expression in social contexts, and to the recognition of intention in actions executed by others.

Contributors
Colin Allen, Mireille Bonnard, Vittorio Gallese, Jozina B. de Graaf, Franck Grammont, Patrick Haggard, Marco Iacoboni, Dorothée Legrand, Pierre Livet, Albert Ogien, Jean Pailhous, Jean-Luc Petit, Jean-Michel Roy, Jessica A. Sommerville, Manos Tsakiris, Amanda L. Woodward

About the Author

Franck Grammont is Assistant Professor at the J. A. Dieudonné Laboratory, University of the Sciences of Nice. Dorothée Legrand is a Researcher in Philosophy at the Center for Research in Applied Epistemology, Paris. Pierre Livet is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Provence.