Lecture 07

Date given: Wednesday, 26th November 2025

Handout for all of Lecture 07 as pdf. (This has the same content as the web version you are reading here.)

Essay Questions

This lecture is relevant for answering the following questions:

• long essay question 3, How, if at all, should a philosophical theory of action incorporate scientific discoveries about the control of action?

• long essay question 4, Could some motor representations be intentions?

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• Motor Representation
• Motor Representations Ground the Directedness of Actions to Goals
• Motor Representations Aren’t Intentions
• Motor Representation and The Problem of Action
• Conclusion