Colloquium: Ariel Zylberman (SUNY Albany)

What is the nature of intentional action? Philosophers typically reach for two types of accounts: causal and teleological. This article introduces and begins to defend the Powers View: to act intentionally constitutively requires purporting to make a certain doing (or omission) count as having a determinate normative meaning. The account captures essential conditions for an agent’s knowledge of her acts, while avoiding some of the signature challenges to causal and teleological alternatives.