Bradford Skow

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Bradford Skow
Education New York University (PhD)
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Institutions MIT
Main interests
 metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics

Bradford Skow is an American philosopher and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his works on metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of physics. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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In philosophy, an action is an event that an agent performs for a purpose, that is guided by the person's intention. The first question in the philosophy of action is to determine how actions differ from other forms of behavior, like involuntary reflexes. According to Ludwig Wittgenstein, it involves discovering "[w]hat is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm". There is broad agreement that the answer to this question has to do with the agent's intentions. So driving a car is an action since the agent intends to do so, but sneezing is a mere behavior since it happens independent of the agent's intention. The dominant theory of the relation between the intention and the behavior is causalism: driving the car is an action because it is caused by the agent's intention to do so. On this view, actions are distinguished from other events by their causal history. Causalist theories include Donald Davidson's account, which defines actions as bodily movements caused by intentions in the right way, and volitionalist theories, according to which volitions form a core aspect of actions. Non-causalist theories, on the other hand, often see intentions not as the action's cause but as a constituent of it.

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  1. ↑ Wilson, Alastair (19 August 2019). "Review of Causation, Explanation, and the Metaphysics of Aspect". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.
  2. ↑ Pincock, Christopher (14 May 2017). "Review of Reasons Why". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.
  3. ↑ Balashov, Yuri (18 March 2018). "Review of What Makes Time Special?". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.
  4. ↑ Sullivan, Meghan (21 August 2016). "Review of The Moving Spotlight: An Essay on Time and Ontology". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.
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