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Charles Taylor on purpose and causation

✍ Scribed by George Sher

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1975
Tongue: English
Weight: 698 KB
Volume: 6
Category: Article
ISSN: 0040-5833
DOI: 10.1007/bf00139818

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✦ Synopsis

Charles Taylor analyzes purposive action as involving both teleological explicability and intentionality on the part of the agent. This paper examines (a) the adequacy of this analysis of purposiveness, and (b) an incompatibility that Taylor finds between purpose, thus analyzed, and causal explicabitity. My conclusions are that (1) there is at least one aspect of our concept of purpose that Taylor's analysis does not capture, and (2) even if his account were correct, it would not rule out the possibility that all actions are caused.

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