Intending Recalcitrant Social Ends

Intending to Act

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...

Trying, Intending and Attempted Crimes

Recalcitrant bubbles

We demonstrate that thermocapillary forces may drive bubbles against liquid flow in 'anomalous' mixtures. Unlike 'ordinary' liquids, in which bubbles migrate towards higher temperatures, we have observed vapour bubbles migrating towards lower temperatures, therefore against the flow. This unusual behaviour may be explained by the temperature dependence of surface tension of these binary mixture...

The Logic of Intending and Predicting

Can human acts be causally explained in the same way as the rest of nature? If so, causal explanation in the manner of the Hempelian model should fit the human sciences and the natural sciences equally. This is not so much a question of whether the Hempelian model is a completely adequate account of causal explanation, but about whether it is adequate or inadequate in the same way for each: if ...