Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1759-0949|55|4|621-637
ISSN： 0012-2173
Source： Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie, Vol.55, Iss.4, 2016-12, pp. : 621-637
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Abstract
I focus on David Gauthier’s intriguing suggestion that actions are not to be evaluated directly but via an evaluation of deliberative procedures. I argue that this suggestion is misleading, since even the most direct evaluation of (intentional) actions involves the evaluation of different ways of deliberating about what to do. Relatedly, a complete picture of what an agent is or might be (intentionally) doing cannot be disentangled from a complete picture of how s/he is or might be deliberating. A more viable contrast concerns whether actions
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