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Provides comments for the online handouts for Philospohical Issues in Behavioural Science lecture course using github issues and utteranc.es
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utterances-bot commented 2 years ago

Introduction: Why Investigate Philosophical Issues in Behavioural Science? - Philosophical Issues in Behavioural Science: From Individual to Collaborative Action

A course at the University of Warwick about philosophical issues in behavioural science.

https://philosophical-behavioral-science-docs.butterfill.com/docs/lecture_01/introduction/

janbalcerowski commented 2 years ago

will there be a reading list for this module?

lokindra427 commented 2 years ago

Regarding the 'simple picture' of actions, more specifically the claim that actions involve the agent knowing the reasons for why they act, does it not turn out to be the case that anarchic hand syndrome and habitual processes provide evidence for refuting this claim?

In the case of habitual processes specifically, since we have begun covering this, can it be said that the agent has knowledge of the reasons for why they act? What knowledge would they need to have regarding how this habit came about for us to consider the agent as knowing why they are acting in that way? Does the answer "I did it out of habit" work, or does there need to be something more substantial and/or specific?

In summary, I question the intuitiveness of the claim that we know the reasons for why we act. Maybe we can infer those reasons upon being prompted, but that doesn't seem to be enough.