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Rational and social agency : the philosophy of Michael Bratman / edited by Manuel Vargas and Gideon Yaffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bratman, Michael--Influence.
- Bratman, Michael.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 360 pages)
- Other Title:
- Philosophy of Michael Bratman
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology. This is a collection of critical essays by some of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished figures, with an editorial introduction situating Bratman's work and its broader significance. The essays in this volume engage with ideas and themes prominent in Bratman's work. The volume also includes a lengthy reply by Bratman, which breaks new ground and deepens our understanding of the nature of action, rationality, and social agency.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Gideon Yaffe and Manuel Vargas
- Intention as a model for belief / Richard Holton
- The single phenomenon view and experimental philosophy / Alfred R. Mele
- Intention, plans and ethical rationalism / Kieran Setiya
- What good is a will? / J. David Velleman
- Reasons, policies and the real self: Bratman on identification / R. Jay Wallace
- Desires and beliefs of one's own / Geoffrey Sayre-McCord and Michael Smith
- Segmented agency / Elijah Millgram
- The normative constitution of agency / Christine M. Korsgaard
- The nature of agreements: a solution to some puzzles about claim-rights and joint intention / Margaret Gilbert
- Massively shared agency / Scott J. Shapiro
- Rational and social agency: reflections and replies / Michael E. Bratman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 24, 2014).
- Other Format:
- Print version
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