title: Intentional Action in Folk Psychology: An Experimental Investigation
creator: Knobe, Joshua
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Ethics
subject: Social Psychology
description: Four experiments examined people’s folk-psychological concept of intentional action. The chief question was whether or not evaluative considerations — considerations of good and bad, right and wrong, praise and blame — played any role in that concept. The results indicated that the moral qualities of a behavior strongly influence people’s judgements as to whether or not that behavior should be considered ‘intentional.’ After eliminating a number of alternative explanations, the author concludes that this effect is best explained by the hypothesis that evaluative considerations do play some role in people’s concept of intentional action.
contributor: Bechtel, William
date: 2003
type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/2922/1/IntentionSkill.pdf
identifier:   Knobe, Joshua  (2003) Intentional Action in Folk Psychology: An Experimental Investigation.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]    (In Press)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/2922/