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From Pragmatism to Praxis. The foundations of the philosophy of action
Our starting point is the widespread contention, in contemporary analytic philosophy, that reinterpreting and translating theoretical questions in and into pragmatic can solve longstanding philosophical problems. The example of metaethics will be discussed. A problem with this strategy is that resort to practical considerations has not been accompanied by sufficient attention to the structure of practice, of practice, as a special kind of mental, physical, conceptual, and normative exercise. Our course aims to explore the foundations of the philosophy of action, both in a historical and a theoretical perspective. The main lines of discussion will be whether in the domain of practice the same requirements of objectivity and normativity apply that hold for knowledge. We will also enquire how to understand the domain of practice in terms of the relations between actions, agents, and reasons for acting. Thus, we will discuss the ontology of actions (what kind of change/state of the world is the performance of an action); the conceptual priority of objects and subjects, acts and agents, in the domain of practice; the nature of the normativity of action.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, De Anima, Metaphysics
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Anscombe, Intention
Thompson, Mind and Action
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