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9780195187717

Structures of Agency Essays

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    9780195187717

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    0195187717

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-01-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguishedphilosopher Michael E. Bratman of Stanford University.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

Author Biography


Michael E. Bratman is Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
3(18)
Part I Planning, Temporally Extended Agency, and Self-Governance
Reflection, Planning, and Temporally Extended Agency
21(26)
Valuing and the Will
47(21)
Hierarchy, Circularity, and Double Reduction
68(21)
Two Problems about Human Agency
89(17)
Nozick on Free Will
106(31)
Appendix: Nozick, Free Will, and the Problem of Agential Authority
127(10)
A Desire of One's Own
137(25)
Autonomy and Hierarchy
162(25)
Three Forms of Agential Commitment: Reply to Cullity and Gerrans
187(8)
Planning Agency, Autonomous Agency
195(27)
Three Theories of Self-Governance
222(35)
Part II Extending the Theory
Temptation Revisited
257(26)
Shared Valuing and Frameworks for Practical Reasoning
283(28)
Index 311

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