Explaining our Actions: A Critique of Common-Sense Theorizing (CUP, 2025)Peter Carruthers 2. Mental actions Yesterday I emphasized the wide range of actions that fall outside the standard belief-desire model. One payoff from recognizing this variety is that many more mental processes emerge as action-like, too. There are obvious cases that …
Explaining our Actions: A Critique of Common-Sense Theorizing (CUP, 2025)Peter Carruthers 1. Which actions? The proximal goal of Explaining our Actions is to critique the standard belief-desire model of actions and action-explanation, confronting it with our best science. A more distal methodological goal is to show that the methods still …
This week on Brains we will feature a series of posts by Peter Carruthers on his new book, Explaining our Actions. Check it out here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/explaining-our-actions/8B4B422B43A47D6F473BA2ED8F24D3FF.
