Organon F
Volume 29, May 2022, Issue 2, Pages 219–245
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
The Problem of Intention and the Evaluative Properties of Effects in the Knobe Effect
Andrzej Waleszczyński – Michał Obidziński – Julia Rejewska
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29203
In the article, we present analyses and findings which add precision to the role of intentions and the relation between effects in attributing the intentionality of causing a side effect. Our research supplements and modifies numerous findings regarding the appearance of the so-called Knobe effect. The experiments and analyses show that the very originality of the story used by Knobe and the relationship between the evaluative properties of the main effect and the side effect results in an asymmetry of responses and contributes to the occurrence of the side-effect effect. Because of this, we reject the thesis that the mode of attitude of the agent to the caused side effect or that the social expectation of this attitude determine the attribution of the intentionality of the caused effect. On the contrary, we defend the thesis that it is the relationship between the evaluative properties of the main effect and those of the side effect, as well as the impact of a side effect on the main effect, that significantly influence the attribution of intentionality in causing a side effect.
Side-effect effect; Knobe effect; intention; intentionality; evaluative properties.
Author
Andrzej Waleszczyński
Affiliation
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
Address
Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Christian Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Wóycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland
Author
Michał Obidziński
Affiliation
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
Address
Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Christian Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Wóycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland
Author
Julia Rejewska
Affiliation
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
Address
Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Christian Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Wóycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland
Received
30 July 2020
Revised
20 July 2021
Accepted
1 December 2021
Published online
27 January 2022
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Waleszczyński, A., Obidziński, M., and Rejewska, J. (2022). The Problem of Intention and the Evaluative Properties of Effects in the Knobe Effect. Organon F, 29(2), 219–245. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29203
Chicago
Waleszczyński, Andrzej, Obidziński, Michał, and Rejewska, Julia. 2022. "The Problem of Intention and the Evaluative Properties of Effects in the Knobe Effect." Organon F 29 (2): 219–245. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29203
Harvard
Waleszczyński, A., Obidziński, M., and Rejewska, J. (2022). The Problem of Intention and the Evaluative Properties of Effects in the Knobe Effect. Organon F, 29(2), pp. 219–245. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29203
© Andrzej Waleszczyński, Michał Obidziński, Julia Rejewska
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