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Doing something intentionally and knowing that you are doing it

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Barry Stroud
Barry Stroud*
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Department of Philosophy, University of California, 314 Moses Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720-2390, USA
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* E-mail: barrys@berkeley.edu
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Abstract

A defence of the idea that an agent's knowledge that he is intentionally doing such-and-such is not ‘based on’ or ‘derived from’ any ‘experience’ of the agent or any item or state he is aware of in acting as he does. The explanation of agents' knowing, in general, what they are intentionally doing lies in the capacity for self-ascription and self-knowledge that is a required for being a subject of any intentional attitudes, and so for competent intentional agency.

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , 2013 , pp. 1 - 12
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Copyright © The Authors 2013

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