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Motivation and Agency

Alfred R. Mele

Print publication date: 2003

Print ISBN-13: 9780195156171

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/019515617X.001.0001

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Deciding

Deciding

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(p.197) 9 Deciding
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Motivation and Agency
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Alfred R. Mele (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/019515617X.003.0010

This chapter's aim is threefold: to articulate and defend an account of what it is to decide to do something; to defend the thesis that there are genuine instances of deciding so understood; and to shed light on how decisions are to be explained. This chapter defends the idea that to decide to do something is to perform a momentary mental action of forming an intention to do it. Actively forming an intention is distinguished from passively acquiring one, and the bearing of reasons and motivational strength on deciding is discussed.

Keywords:   deciding, decision, intention, mental action, motivational strength, reasons

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