/lit/ - Literature

ITT: we post links and greentext summaries of our favorite contemporary philosophical essays or arguments within analytic philosophy

I'll start: anton ford's "action and generality"
http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/ford/Ford[Action&Generality].pdf

>"what's left if i subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I moved my arm up"
>cursory answer: intentionality
>this leads to the conception: bodily movement+intention=intentional bodily movement
>this has lead many philosophers to dispute the nature of intention, all of which do not clarify the issue
>perhaps there are other forms of generality
>this essay outlines 3 of them, and provides arguments for where conceptions of philosophy of action lie in regards to each