Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason: Center for the Study of Language and Information

by Michael E. Bratman

Overview

What happens to our conception of mind and rational agency when we take seriously future-directed intentions and plans and their roles as inputs into further practical reasoning? The author's initial efforts in responding to this question resulted in a series of papers that he wrote during the early 1980s. In this book, Bratman develops further some of the main themes of these essays and also explores a variety of related ideas and issues. Philosophers will find this book of particular interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901575861929
Publisher:	Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date:	06/28/1999
Series:	Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. On the Way to the Planning Theory
3. Plans and Practical Reasoning
4. Agent Rationality: Toward a General Theory
5. Reconsideration and Rationality
6. Agent Rationality: The Historical Theory
7. Commitment Revisited
8. Two Faces of Intention
9. Acting with an Intention
10. Intention and Expected Side Effects
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index