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17 Conditional Promises and Conditional Intentions: (Including a Reply to Castañeda)
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Published:August 2023
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In this essay, Sellars elaborates on his account of conditional intentions in response to an objection from Hector-Neri Castañeda. Conditional intentions take the form, “Shall [I finish my essay at time t → I visit Bruce Aune at time t′]”. Castañeda argues that Sellars’s basic principle—that the logic of intentions is parasitic on the logic of their contents—creates counterintuitive results. For example, the above intention would be logically equivalent to its contrapositive—“Shall [I do not visit Bruce Aune at time t′ → I do not finish my essay at time t]”—which is not a good expression of a conditional intention. Sellars argues that Castañeda’s objection can be overcome if we distinguish more carefully between those elements of an intention which are introduced via his principle So-be-it—and so are considered as given, or not up to the agent—and those that are taken to be up to the agent.
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