Intentional Action and the Unintentional Fallacy

Anscombe and Bratman both reject the Simple View, but many philosophers have thought that it holds the key to understanding intentional action.3 The Simple View raises a complex question: If intentional actions require intentions, then what do intentions require? In other words, what are the necessary conditions for intending to ? For simplicity, I will assume a standard belief-desire model according to which S intends to only if S desires to and believes that he will do so.4 Much of the recent work in action theory can be organized around a set of objections facing the Simple View and other intention-based accounts of intentional action.5 My aim is to present the three most common objections