Knowledge in Action

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.

• Introduction; 2. The puzzle of agential control; 3. Control as a capacity for knowledge; 4. Intentional action; 5. The epistemology of intentional action; 6. Actions and events; 7. Action and form; Bibliography; Index.

'Valaris reorients the philosophy of action, focusing not on mental processes prior to action but on execution-agential control-itself. Drawing on 'knowledge first' epistemology and Anscombe's philosophy of action, he argues that agential control is a capacity to know what one is doing, and presents a novel ontology of actions as hylomorphically-structured occurrent particulars that unfold over time. This is an important book-required reading for epistemologists and philosophers of mind and action.' Will Small, University of Illinois Chicago