Faces of Intention: Selected Essays on Intention and Agency

by Michael E. Bratman

• ISBN13: 9780521637275
• ISBN10: 0521637279
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection of essays by one of the most prominent and internationally respected philosophers of action theory is concerned with deepening our understanding of the notion of intention. These essays enrich Bratman's account of commitment involved in intending, and explore its implications for our understanding of temptation and self-control, shared intention and shared cooperative activity, and moral responsibility. This collection will be a valuable resource for a wide range of philosophers and their students, and will also be of interest to social and developmental psychologists, AI researchers, and game and decision theorists.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: planning agents in a social world

Part I. Acceptance and Stability: 2. Practical reasoning and acceptance in a context

3. Planning and temptation

4. Toxin, temptation, and the stability of intention

Part II. Shared Agency: 5. Shared cooperative activity

6. Shared intention

7. Shared intention and mutual obligation

8. I intend that we J

Part III. Responsibility and Identification: 9. Responsibility and planning

10. Identification, decision, and treating as a reason

Part IV. Critical Studies: 11. Davidson's theory of intention

12. Castañ

eda's theory of thought and action

13. Cognitivism about practical reason

14. Critical study of Korsgaard's The Sources of Normativity.