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Knowledge and Perspective in Action| old_uid | 13606 |
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| title | Knowledge and Perspective in Action |
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| start_date | 2014/03/14 |
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| schedule | 16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The talk will focus on preliminary empirical results regarding knowledge in action and the impact of perspective on the side-effect effect.
According to Anscombe, acting intentionally entails acting knowingly. Davidson objected to such an account of intentional action with his famous carbon-copier example: A man might try to make ten carbon copies yet not believe – and hence not know – that he will succeed. If he does succeed, however, his action will be deemed intentional and Anscombe stands refuted. I’ll sketch a quasi-externalist conception of knowledge that leaves Anscombe’s thesis in tact. Preliminary empirical evidence suggests that this conception is indeed at work in knowledge attributions regarding intentional action.
Folk intuitions are frequently observed to vary with perspective. For instance, what is deemed morally permissible in moral dilemma scenarios (trolleys and the like) depends crucially on whether the subject is asked to assume the perspective of the actor or merely that of a bystander. I’ll report the results of two studies concerning the question whether perspective has an impact on the side-effect effect (or ‘Knobe effect’). |
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| responsibles | Strickland |
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