Intending, acting, and doing

Caught between intending and doing: older people ideating on a self-chosen death.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper is to provide insight into what it means to live with the intention to end life at a self-chosen moment from an insider perspective. SETTING Participants who lived independent or semidependent throughout the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 25 Dutch older citizens (mean age of 82 years) participated. They were ideating on a self-chosen death because they considered...

Intending, Intention, Intent, Intentional Action, and Acting Intentionally: Comments on Knobe and Burra

There has been considerable controversy about whether this last entailment always holds. Ordinary subjects may judge that (4) and (5) are appropriate in cases in which none of (1)-(3) are—cases in which Jack’s breaking the base is a foreseen but undesired consequence of Jack’s intentionally doing something else. It is currently debated what the best explanation of such ordinary reactions might ...

Attending and intending.

children insert an extra wh-word in the middle of a question ('What do you think what pigs eat? ') thus creating a construction that is acceptable in German. These errors reflect the limit of the POS: as there is no German input, the error must arise from children's own innate expectations. Crain and Pietroski also engage the empiricist arguments on their own ground. They consider carefully var...

Intending to Act

Trying, Intending and Attempted Crimes