@article {Patherie:September 2000:0268-1064:400, author = "Patherie, Elisabeth", title = "The Content of Intentions", journal = "Mind & Language", volume = "15", year = "September 2000", abstract = "By distinguishing between prior intentions and intentions in action, Searle has helped solve a number of difficulties confronted by the earlier versions of the causal theory of actions. Yet this distinction also raises important new issues. In particular, once a distinction is posited between two types of intentions, one must specify what the exact nature of their respective contents is and explain how the two types of intentions are connected. I suggest that in addressing those issues we could benefit from the insights provided by recent work in the coginitive neuroscience of action. I try to show how this work can help us give a more precise characterization of the content of intentions in action and bridge the gap between prior intentions and intentions in action.", pages = "400-432(33)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/mila/2000/00000015/00000004/art00003" doi = "doi:10.1111/1468-0017.00142" }