Mark Hopwood
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1,269 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2009
last heard Sep 2014
Mark Hopwood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it seems like the big difference here if we're talking about explanations is this idea that you've introduced of purposive explanations.
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Explanations that have reference to purposes that people have, the goals of of what they do.
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maybe we could say that part of what distinguishes you or part of your problem with the earlier view was that it just didn't invoke that kind of explanation at all.
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So what we were calling the psychologistic picture
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That was just these very complex rocks bumping into each other.
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But at no point in explaining action did we mention anyone's purposes.
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And you're saying that's a mistake.
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In fact, to understand action properly, to get a proper explanation of what's going on in action, we need to invoke people's purposes.
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if someone were to object at this point and say, Well, well hang on, so you're explaining
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what it is for this guy, this safe cracker, to be acting as part of a group.
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But your account of that is that the explanation of what he's doing with this stethoscope has to be given in terms of what a group is doing.
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He's using this stethoscope because he's cracking the safe, he's cracking the safe because the group, the band of robbers, is robbing the bank.
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But what if someone said, Well, the idea of the band of robbers is robbing the bank is exactly what we wanted to explain in the first place.
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So if we were worried that we
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Still didn't understand what that meant.
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We might think that we'd not got anywhere at this point, that you were assuming what we needed to explain.
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So what would your response to that kind of objection be?
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one way of putting what you're saying or in a way the contribution that you're making to our understanding of this is that acting together as distinct from these cases where we're all we all happen to be standing around in the bank and that's not acting together.
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