Intention as Belief

John Schwenkler

doi:10.1111/papq.12365

Intention as Belief

John Schwenkler

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What's the relationship between (1) intending to do something, (2) believing that you are going to do this, and (3) its being the case that you are going to do the thing in question? I propose a position on which all three categories, correctly understood, amount in the fundamental case to the very same thing. The belief that constitutes future-directed intention, when strong, likewise constitutes one as having a real tendency to act in the intended way.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	318-334
Number of pages	17
Journal	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
Volume	103
Issue number	2
Early online date	May 22 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12365
State	Published - Jun 2022
Externally published	Yes

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