RIS ID
80744
Abstract
Psychologically normal adult humans make sense of intentional actions by trying to decide for which reason they were performed. This is a datum that requires our understanding. Although there have been interesting recent debates about how we should understand ‘reasons’, I will follow a long tradition and assume that, at a bare minimum, to act for a reason involves having appropriately interrelated beliefs and desires.
Publication Details
Hutto, D. (2007). The narrative practice hypothesis: origins and applications of folk psychology. Philosophy, 60 (May), 43-68.