Knowledge in Action - Hardcover

Markos Valaris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009745778 ISBN 13: 9781009745772

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

What sets intentional actions apart from the rest has long been a central question in the philosophy of action. In this book, Markos Valaris offers a novel answer, grounded in a distinctive 'knowledge-first' conception of agential control. Rejecting decompositional accounts that analyse intentional action into separate mental and bodily components, Valaris argues that control is best understood as a capacity for knowledge of a distinctively practical kind. This framework yields a unified account of intentional action and illuminates several live debates in the field, including the ontology of actions as events, the epistemology of intentional action, and the nature of skill.

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About the Author

Markos Valaris is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He works primarily on topics in philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009745778
• ISBN 13: 9781009745772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240