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7 - A dialogue on intentions
- Alessandro Duranti, University of California, Los Angeles
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- The Anthropology of Intentions
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- 18 December 2014
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- 08 January 2015, pp 151-174
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Summary
Introduction
This chapter reproduces a continuous series of fairly long email messages initiated by discourse analyst and cognitive scientist Teun van Dijk, who wrote to me on November 1, 2004 to ask me “a theoretical question,” as he put it, about my position on the role of intentions in discourse. A number of factors, including electronic mail as a medium for unedited and informal exchanges as well as the long-term professional relationship between the two of us (over several decades van Dijk has involved me in a number of his editorial projects), made possible what I hope readers will appreciate as a frank exchange of ideas and positions that is rarely found in the more polished and peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters of edited volumes. I have also included toward the end of this chapter a message by my colleague Jason Throop, whom I invited to join the discussion. His response to the exchanges I had forwarded to him captures his own original ways of thinking about intentions and anticipates some of the themes found in the following chapters, themes that since 2010 have been incorporated into our jointly taught seminar on the culture of intersubjectivity at UCLA.
In reproducing this exchange of emails as a chapter of this book, I have resisted the urge to provide here a summary of the entire discussion for the simple reason that almost each message contains some attempt to clarify both the points of agreement and those of disagreement. I believe that any additional, post hoc summary of mine could not do justice to the friendly tension of the arguments whose main value is both the genuineness of the claims contained in it. Hence, with minimal cuts (of greetings at the beginning and the end of each message) and a few added references, here is what we wrote to each other over a few days, in the fall of 2004.
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- By Ralph Adolphs, Bernard J. Baars, John A. Bargh, Jesse M. Bering, David F. Bjorklund, Joseph E. Bogen, Rebekah Bradley, Wallace Chafe, Michael C. Corballis, Diego Cosmelli, Jean-Marie Danion, Richard J. Davidson, Steven W. Day, Georges Dreyfus, John D. Dunne, Stan Franklin, Helena Hong Gao, Lisa Geraci, Deborah E. Hannula, J. Allan Hobson, Caroline Huron, John F. Kihlstrom, Asher Koriat, Uriah Kriegel, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Charles D. Laughlin, Antoine Lutz, Drew McDermott, Katharine McGovern, Keith Oately, Suparna Rajaram, Henry L. Roediger III, Edmund T. Rolls, Daniel L. Schachter, William Seager, Daniel J. Simons, Scott D. Slotnick, Henry Stapp, Petra Stoerig, Ron Sun, Evan Thompson, C. Jason Throop, Rebecca Todd, Carlo Umiltà, David E. Warren, Joel Weinberger, Drew Westen, Dan Zahavi, Philip David Zelazo
- Edited by Philip David Zelazo, University of Toronto, Morris Moscovitch, University of Toronto, Evan Thompson, University of York
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness
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- 05 June 2012
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- 14 May 2007, pp -
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