Browsing by Author "Sandis, Constantine"

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    • Anscombe’s Intentions 

      Sandis, Constantine (2015-10-01)
      Philosophers commonly talk of Anscombe's book Intention as a single unified Account produced at a particular moment in time. Yet we have a tendency to refer to the Text of the second (1963) edition while citing the first ...

    • Are Reasons Like Shampoo? 

      Sandis, Constantine (Routledge, 2019-06-11)
      This essay considers various constraints placed by philosophers on what they take to be a shared concept of a reason for action. I try to show that these constraints are incompatible with one another, proceeding to argue ...

    • Bedrock Gender 

      Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele; Sandis, Constantine (Routledge, 2022-12-30)

    • Character and Causation : Hume's Philosophy of Action 

      Sandis, Constantine (Routledge, 2019-08-22)
      In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume’s philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume’s work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer ...

    • The Doing and the Deed : Action in Normative Ethics 

      Sandis, Constantine (Cambridge University Press, 2017-08-24)
      This essay is motivated by the thought that the things we do are to be distinguished from our acts of doing them. I defend a particular way of drawing this distinction before proceeding to demonstrate its relevance for ...

    • Hegel on Purpose 

      Sandis, Constantine; Laitinen, Arto (2019-08-29)
      In this paper we propose a new interpretation of Hegel’s views on action and responsibility, defending it against its most plausible exegetical competitors. Any exposition of Hegel will face both terminological and substantive ...

    • 'If Some People Looked Like Elephants and Others Like Cats': : Wittgenstein on Understanding Others and Forms of Life 

      Sandis, Constantine (2015-10-06)
      This essay introduces a tension between the public Wittgenstein’s optimism about knowledge of other minds and the private Wittgenstein’s pessimism about understanding others. There are three related reasons which render ...

    • Kant and Hegel on Purposive Action 

      Sandis, Constantine; Mayr, Erasmus; Laitinen, Arto (2018-01-16)
      This essay discusses Kant and Hegel’s philosophies of action and the place of action within the general structure of their practical philosophy. We begin by briefly noting a few things that both unite and distinguish the ...

    • Modern Moral Philosophy Before and After Anscombe 

      Sandis, Constantine (2020-01-27)
      Prologue This paper argues for the following three theses: i) There was considerably more philosophy of action in moral theory before 1958 (when Anscombe complained of its lack under the banner 'philosophy of psychology') ...

    • Motivated by the Gods: : Compartmentalized Agency & Responsibility 

      Sandis, Constantine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

    • No Picnic: Cavell on Rule-Descriptions 

      Sandis, Constantine (2021-02-27)
      In his first paper, ‘Must We Mean What We Say?’, Stanley Cavell defended the methods of ordinary language philosophy against various charges made by his senior colleague, Benson Mates, under the influence of the empirical ...

    • One Fell Swoop : Small Red Book Historicism Before and After Davidson 

      Sandis, Constantine (2015-12-31)
      In this essay I revisit some anti-causalist arguments relating to reason-giving explanations of action put forth by numerous philosophers writing in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s in what Donald Davidson dismissively described ...

    • Period and Place: : Collingwood and Wittgenstein on Understanding Others 

      Sandis, Constantine (2016-01-01)
      What it takes to understand radically different others lies at the heart of the philosophies developed by Collingwood and Wittgenstein at roughly the same time. Their approaches contain three differences of focus that are ...

    • Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe 

      Sandis, Constantine (2018-02-12)
      This special issue includes new essays by an international team of on the philosophy of Action from 1500 to the first half of the 20th Century.

    • Philosophy, In a Sense 

      Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele; Sandis, Constantine (2021-02-01)

    • Philosophy, In a Sense 

      Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele; Sandis, Constantine (2021-02-01)

    • Philosophy, In a Sense 

      Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele; Sandis, Constantine (2021-02-01)

    • Philosophy, In a Sense 

      Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele; Sandis, Constantine (2021-02-01)

    • The Skin In The Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events 

      Sandis, Constantine; Taleb, Nassim (2014-01-15)
      Standard economic theory makes an allowance for the agency problem, but not the compounding of moral hazard in the presence of informational opacity, particularly in what concerns high-impact events in fat tailed domains ...

    • Verbal Reports and "Real' Reasons" : Confabulation and Conflation 

      Sandis, Constantine (2015-04-01)
      This paper examines the relation between the various forces which underlie human action and verbal reports about our reasons for acting as we did. I maintain that much of the psychological literature on confabulations rests ...