Question 4: Could some motor representations be intentions?

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Check the glossary entry on motor representation.

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Motor Representations Aren’t Intentions

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Brozzo (2017)

Pacherie (2006)

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Glossary

motor representation : The kind of representation characteristically involved in preparing, performing and monitoring sequences of small-scale actions such as grasping, transporting and placing an object. They represent actual, possible, imagined or observed actions and their effects.

References

Brozzo, C. (2017). Motor Intentions: How intentions and motor representations come together. Mind and Language, 32(2), 231–256.

Haggard, P. (2005). Conscious intention and motor cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(6), 290–295.

Hornsby, J. (2000). Personal and sub-personal: A defence of dennett’s early distinction. Philosophical Explorations, 3(1), 6–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869790008520978

Pacherie, E. (2006). Toward a Dynamic Theory of Intentions. In S. Pockett, W. P. Banks, & S. Gallagher (Eds.), Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? (p. 0). The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262162371.003.0009

Pacherie, E. (2018). Motor intentionality. The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition, 369–387.