- 著者
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岡部 勉
- 出版者
- 日本哲学会
- 雑誌
- 哲学 (ISSN:03873358)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.2000, no.51, pp.33-46, 2000-05-01 (Released:2009-07-23)
The origins of the current philosophy of action, it might be said, are G. E. M. Anscombe (Intention, 1957) and D. Davidson (Action, Reasons and Causes, 1963). But I suspect we are now in a dark forest, not to say desert, remote from those origins. From the 1980s, philosophers have accumulated books and papers on intentionality and on causation. I contend that the philosophy of action must be appropriately connected with the philosophy of mind, on the one hand, and with the philosophy of language, on the other. I make enquiries in this paper whether arguments about intentionality, which is said about action, consciousness, and language likewise by philosophers, can give a basis for the connection expected among those; and whether arguments about causation can contribute towards giving such a basis.