Naturalizing Intention in ActionFranck Grammont, Dorothée Legrand, Pierre Livet An interdisciplinary integration of theoretical and empirical approaches to the question of intentional action. Intention was seen traditionally as a philosophical concept, before being debated more recently from psychological and social perspectives. Today the cognitive sciences approach intention empirically, at the level of its underlying mechanisms. This naturalization of intention makes it more concrete and graspable by empirical sciences. This volume offers an interdisciplinary integration of current research on intentional processes naturalized through action, drawing on the theoretical and empirical approaches of cognitive neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and sociology. Each chapter integrates several disciplinary perspectives. Taken together, the chapters show that the reunification of the different dimensions of intentional processes may constitute an adequate basis for a general model of intentional processes and their links to action. This can be applied at various levels, from neuronal activity to self-constitution, from the expression of intentional actions at the individual level to their expression in social contexts, and to the recognition of intention in actions executed by others. Contributors |
Contents
Problems of the Contemporary Theory of Action | 21 |
Neural Functional and Phenomenological Signatures of Intentional | 39 |
The Link between Action Production and Action Processing | 67 |
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