Structures of Agency Essays

Name: Structures of Agency Essays
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ISBN: 9780195187700

ISBN-10: 0195187709

ISBN-13: 9780195187700

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael E. Bratman

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This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguished philosopher Michael E. Bratman of Stanford University. They revolve around his influential theory, know as the "planning theory of intention and agency." Bratman's primary concern is with what he calls "strong" forms of human agency--including forms of human agency that are the target of our talk about self-determination, self-government, and autonomy. These essays are unified and cohesive in theme, and will be of interest to philosophers in ethics and metaphysics.

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.30" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English




Introduction



Reflection, planning, and temporally extended agency



Valuing and the will



Hierarchy, circularity, and double reduction



Two problems about human agency



Nozick on free will



Nozick, free will, and the problem of agential authority



A desire of one's own



Autonomy and hierarchy



Three forms of agential commitment : reply to Cullity and Gerrans



Planning agency, autonomous agency



Three theories of self-governance



Temptation revisited



Shared valuing and frameworks for practical reasoning