Explaining public action

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  • dc.contributor.author Verdejo Aparicio, Víctor Martín
  • dc.date.accessioned 2024-03-15T07:11:12Z
  • dc.date.available 2024-03-15T07:11:12Z
  • dc.date.issued 2020
  • dc.description.abstract Actions are uncontroversially public. However, the prevailing model of explanation in the debate about the de se seems to conflict with this fact by proposing agent-specific explanations that yield agent-specific types of action—i.e. types of action that no two agents can instantiate. Remarkably, this point affects both proponents and critics of the de se. In this paper, I present this kind of problem, characterise the proper level of analysis for action explanation compatible with the publicity of action—i.e. the agent-bound level—and suggest that acknowledgement of this level highlights two important amendments of contemporary views. First, sceptics must accept that, when explanation is attitude-involving, the attitudes mentioned in the explanation of action must refer to the agent. Secondly, and perhaps more surprisingly, proponents of the de se should seek for accounts of de se attitudes that are not confined to a specific agent and are, therefore, sharable across agents.
  • dc.description.sponsorship This work has received financial support from the Secretary for Universities and Research of the Department of Economy and Knowledge (Government of Catalonia) and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Government of Spain) and the European Union through the research projects FFI2016-80588-R and FFI2015-63892-P (MINECO, AEI/FEDER, EU).
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  • dc.identifier.citation Verdejo VM. Explaining public action. Topoi. 2020;39:475-85. DOI: 10.1007/s11245-017-9524-2
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11245-017-9524-2
  • dc.identifier.issn 0167-7411
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59419
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Springer
  • dc.relation.ispartof Topoi. 2020;39:475-85.
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2016-80588-R
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2015-63892-P
  • dc.rights This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11245-017-9524-2
  • dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.subject.keyword De se attitude
  • dc.subject.keyword Action explanation
  • dc.subject.keyword Action type
  • dc.subject.keyword Public action
  • dc.subject.keyword Agent-bound level
  • dc.title Explaining public action
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

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