Titlebook: Realism in Action; Essays in the Philos Matti Sintonen,Petri Ylikoski,Kaarlo Miller Book 2003 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 200

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The Scope of Motivation and the Basis of Practical Reasony and normative ethics. Whatever else motivation is, it is manifested in our motives, and they in turn are crucial in explaining our actions, in appraising our character, and, on some views, in determining the rationality of what we do. Many kinds of things have been called motives: desires, emotion

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Reasons and Causes: The Case of Collingwoodions — that the agent has. We often call these the “reasons” for the action. In the present paper I will be concerned principally with just this one kind of explanation, with intentionalist explanation, as it is often called.

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Spinoza on Causal Explanation of Actionting model of causal explanation that he thought would apply to all natural phenomena from the movements of physical bodies to the behavior of organisms including human conduct. My aim is to present his model and to compare it with some recent discussions on causal explanation, especially with Raimo

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Commitmentsin AI. Their main philosophical source has been Bratman (especially 1987), and they in turn have been a major source of inspiration for further research both in philosophy and in AI. In what follows I have a “persistent goal” to make the notion applicable to human agents. I have tried, first, to acc

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Social Institutionsinguishing between social institutions and other related social phenomena, and describing some of the defining features of institutions. Second, I will present a critique of John Searle’s account of social institutions.. Third, I will sketch an alternative teleological account of institutions.

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Common Belief and Common Knowledgeand the same conviction being shared by different people. But then we are actually talking about the proposition each of these persons believes to be the respective content of their convictions, not (only) the proposition of being convinced experienced by the persons concerned. In other words, what

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Book 2003ature of social groups, institutions and collective intentionality, and on common belief and common knowledge. Applications to the social sciences include, e.g., a look at the .Erkl?ren-Verstehen. controversy in economics, and at constructivist and realist views on archeological reconstructions of the past.