Basic Activity. Issue 1 (4th June 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hornsby, Jennifer
• Is Part Of: Supplement to the proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Volume 87:Issue 1(2013:Jun.)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 18
• Publication Date: 2013-06-04
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Congresses; Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8349.2013.00217.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-7013

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>I present a view of activity, taking it that an agent is engaged in activity so long as an action of hers is occurring. I suggest that this view (a) helps in understanding what goes wrong in an argument in Thompson (2008) known sometimes as the 'initial segment argument', and (b) enables us to see that there could be an intelligible conception of what is basic when agents' knowledge is allowed into an account of that.</p> </abstract>