| Grant number: | 14/02558-1 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |
| Start date: | May 01, 2014 |
| End date: | January 31, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Philosophy |
| Principal Investigator: | Osvaldo Frota Pessoa Junior |
| Grantee: | Beatriz Sorrentino Marques |
| Supervisor: | Alfred Remen Mele |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Institution abroad: | Florida State University, United States |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 11/21030-0 - The faded agent: the agents role in action explanations and how practical reasoning may help in its understanding, BP.DR |
Abstract Daniel Wegner's attack on the consciousness of intentions has brought to light the importance of understanding how intentions may be conscious or unconscious for different action production processes. This is a relevant part of challenging Wegner's statement that intentions are always conscious and, because of this, cannot be part of action production. Hence, an investigation of neuroscience experiments on consciousness of cognitive processes - such as perception, which is considered to hold similarities to action - is proposed to try to clarify the matter. Furthermore, the development of the PhD research has put into question the conception of a being who acts, an agent, which is fundamental to the issue of the disappearing agent (the main issue of the PhD project), and has brought to the spotlight the framework in which the problem is posed: Agent Causation Theory's conception of how humans act. Further investigation therefore is needed on the matter, since recent neuroscience experiments may reveal some fundamental problems for this conception, and consequently for its understanding of agency; for instance, the role of consciousness in the production of action. A revision of this understanding of the agent is yet to be done. Thus, one proposes in this project a revision of the conception of the agent - one who acts - in accordance with empirical findings about action production. (AU) | |
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