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Unconscious Intentions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

D. W. Hamlyn
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, University of London.

Extract

Is it possible to do something intentionally and yet be unconscious of so doing? Many philosophers would answer ‘No’ to this question on the grounds that it is of the essence of intention that if we do something intentionally we do it knowing what we are doing.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1971

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