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What Makes an Action Intentional?

Published on February 23, 2009 by Edouard Machery in Experiments in Philosophy

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A few months ago, I reported on some studies on how people with Asperger think about intentional actions (see my previous post on the topic). Recently, Joshua Knobe and I have been interviewed on the topic of intentional action by Natasha Mitchell in her program All In Mind on the Australian radio ABC.

If you were interested by the original post, you might want to listen to the interview (here).

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Tags: free will, intention, intentional action, joshua, knobe

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Edouard Machery is a philosopher of psychology and an experimental philosopher in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

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