Wittgenstein's philosophy of action

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 347-363

  Scott, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.2307/2956446     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. I refer to Wittgenstein's works as follows: The Blue and Brown Books (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958) [BB]
2. Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Philosophy of Psychology 1946-7, ed. P.T. Geach (Chicago UP, 1988) [LPP]
3. Philosophical Investigations, tr. G.E.M. Anscombe and R. Rhees (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958) [PI]
4. Philosophical Occasions 1912-51, ed. J. Klagge and A. Nordmann (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993) [PO]
5. Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol. I, ed. G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright, tr. G.E.M. Anscombe (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980) [RPP1]
6. Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol. II, ed. G.H. von Wright and H. Nyman, tr. C.G. Luckhardt and M. Aue (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980) [RPP2]
7. Zettel, ed. G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright, tr. G.E.M. Anscombe (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967) [Z]
8. P. Winch, 'Wittgenstein's Treatment of the Will', Ratio, 10 (1968), pp. 38-53
9. W. James, The Principles of Psychology (London: Macmillan, 1891), pp. 492-3
10. cf. Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind (London: George Allen & Unvvin, 1921), p. 285
11. S. Shanker, 'Wittgenstein versus James and Russell on the Nature of Willing', in S. Shanker and J. Canfield (eds), Wittgenstein's Intentions (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 195-239
12. S. Candlish, 'Das Wollen ist auch nur eine Erfahrung', in R.L. Arrington and H.-J. Glock (eds), Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 203-26
13. C. Ginet, On Action (Cambridge UP, 1990), p. 38
14. RPP1 §898. Not all proponents of this theory have made use of this advantage: cf. D. Armstrong, The Nature of Mind (Univ. of Queensland Press, 1980), p. 75
15. B. O'Shaughnessy, The Will: a Dual Aspect Theory (Cambridge UP, 1980), p. 365
16. W. Penfield, The Mystery of the Mind (Princeton UP, 1975), p. 76
17. J. Searle, Intentionality (Cambridge UP, 1983), pp. 89-90. Penfield's experiment does not establish that the patient, in claiming that these actions are involuntary, bases this judgement on the particular way that the movements feel, rather than on the fact that they were unexpected, or that they could not be prevented, or that they were performed under these particular conditions