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Author Bratman, Michael.

Title Structures of agency [electronic resource] : essays / Michael E. Bratman.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description 321 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Planning, temporally extended agency, and self-governance. Reflection, planning, and temporally extended agency ; Valuing and the will ; Hierarchy, circularity, and double reduction ; Two problems about human agency ; Nozick on free will. Appendix: 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 -- Extending the theory temptation revisited ; Shared valuing and frameworks for practical reasoning.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Intentionality (Philosophy)
Autonomy (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0195187709
9780195187700
0195187717 (pbk.)
9780195187717 (pbk.)

 
    
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