Proximal practical foresight

Philosophical Studies

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-19

  Wilson, George ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 52849138224     PISSN: 00318116     EISSN: 15730883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018749523489     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. At the 1999 Pacific Division Meetings, this paper was read under the title "Intention, Commitment, and Self-Knowledge."
2. Practical Reflection, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
3. Velleman, p. 26.
4. Velleman, pp. 18-25.
5. Velleman, p. 58.
6. H. P. Grice, "Intention and Uncertainty," Prnceedings of the British Academy 57 (1971), p. 269.
7. G. E. M. Anscombe, Intention, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1963, pp. 1-7. The phrase "estimates of the future" is Anscombe's term for predictions which are not based by the predictor on evidence.
8. Intentions, Plans, and Practical Reasoning, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, p. 17.
9. Alfred R. Mele, Springs of Action: Understanding Intentional Behavior, New York, Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 72.
10. Grice, p. 270.
11. Velleman, Chapter Four.
12. Robert C. Stalnaker, Inquiry, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1984, p. 80.
13. This is a quotation from "Knowing One's Own Actions," an unpublished paper by Sydney Shoemaker which was delivered at the 1999 Pacific Division Meetings of the APA as a commentary on my paper and on Kevin Falvey's. I am grateful for Shoemaker's insightful discussion, and I have been guided by his remarks in other parts of this paper.
14. See, in particular, Donald Davidson, "Intending," in Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1980.
15. "Self-Knowledge: Discovery, Resolution, and Undoing," Eurnpean Journal of Philosophy 5 (1997), p. 153.