creators_name: Knobe, Joshua creators_id: 4031 editors_name: Clark, Michael type: journalp datestamp: 2003-08-17 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:20 metadata_visibility: show title: "Intentional Action and Side Effects in Ordinary Language" ispublished: pub subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public keywords: intention, intentional action, ordinary language, action theory abstract: There has been a long-standing dispute in the philosophical literature about the conditions under which a behavior counts as 'intentional.' Much of the debate turns on questions about the use of certain words and phrases in ordinary language. The present paper investigates these questions empirically, using experimental techniques to investigate people's use of the relevant words and phrases. g date: 2003-07 date_type: published publication: Analysis volume: 63 publisher: Blackwell pagerange: 190-193 refereed: TRUE referencetext: Bratman, M. 1984. Two faces of intention. Philosophical Review 93: 375–405. Bratman, M. 1987. Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Harman, G. 1976. Practical reasoning. Review of Metaphysics 29: 431–463. Malle, B. F. & Knobe, J. 1997. The folk concept of intentionality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 33: 101–121. Mele, A. 2001. Acting intentionally: probing folk notions. In Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition. ed. B. F. Malle, L. J. Moses, & D. Baldwin, 27–43. Cambridge, MA: M. I. T. Press. Mele, A. 2003. Intentional Action: Controversies, Data, and Core Hypotheses. Philosophical Psychology 16. 325-340. 9 citation: Knobe, Joshua (2003) "Intentional Action and Side Effects in Ordinary Language". [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/3116/2/IntentionalAction.pdf