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Intention and Agency

Author : Donald F. Gustafson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400945205
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Intention and Agency written by Donald F. Gustafson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powers of seeing, hearing, re membering, distinguishing, judging, reason ing, are speculative powers; the power of ex ecuting any work of art or labour is active power. Thomas Reid I Some causal efficacy is due to persons. And, some of the causal efficacy due to persons is imparted by, not merely to, them. Further, some of the causal efficacy due to persons and imparted by them is imparted by and not merely to their physical, active bodies. Otherwise there is no agency. I will assume, with everyone at the outset, that the world contains agency of the kind found in some of a person's comings and goings, movings and changing of things. Agency is exhibited in more and in less sophisticated forms, that is, in any sophisticated, artful activity and in less complex, non-articulate physical activities. In both there appears to be more than mere causal efficacy imparted to the environment by a person. In sophisticated agen cy activities are organized, guided, purposive and purposeful comings and goings, movings and changes. And purpose is not absent in less soph isticated purposive activities of active creatures. So I shall argue in what follows. Now is the time for introducing the themes, topics, and issues to be considered, and the plan and purpose in them.

Faces of Intention

Author : Michael Bratman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521637275
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Faces of Intention written by Michael Bratman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays is concerned with deepening our understanding of the notion of intention.

Intention, Agency and Criminal Liability

Author : Antony Duff
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631153122
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Intention, Agency and Criminal Liability written by Antony Duff and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shared Agency

Author : Michael Bratman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199339996
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Shared Agency written by Michael Bratman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings act together in characteristic ways that matter to us a great deal. This book explores the conceptual, metaphysical and normative foundations of such sociality. It argues that appeal to the planning structures involved in our individual, temporally extended agency provides substantial resources for understanding these foundations of our sociality.

Intention in Law and Philosophy

Author : Ngaire Naffine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351739182
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Intention in Law and Philosophy written by Ngaire Naffine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. Legal systems are posited on the assumption that people are rational intentional agents who can choose to follow or break the law. This book connects the common interests of lawyers and philosophers in the meaning of intention and its relation to responsibility in legal, moral and political contexts.

Intelligent Agents V: Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages

Author : Jörg Müller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540490574
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Intelligent Agents V: Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages by : Jörg Müller

Download or read book Intelligent Agents V: Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages written by Jörg Müller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-29 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading edge of computer science research is notoriously ?ckle. New trends come and go with alarming and unfailing regularity. In such a rapidly changing ?eld, the fact that research interest in a subject lasts more than a year is worthy of note. The fact that, after ?ve years, interest not only remains, but actually continues to grow is highly unusual. As 1998 marked the ?fth birthday of the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), it seemed appropriate for the organizers of the original workshop to comment on this remarkable growth, and re ect on how the ?eld has developed and matured. The ?rst ATAL workshop was co-located with the Eleventh European Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (ECAI-94), which was held in Amsterdam. The fact that we chose an AI conference to co-locate with is telling: at that time, we expected most researchers with an interest in agents to come from the AI community. The workshop, whichwasplannedoverthesummerof1993,attracted32submissions,andwasattended by 55 people.ATAL was the largest workshop at ECAI-94, and the clear enthusiasm on behalfofthecommunitymadethedecisiontoholdanotherATALworkshopsimple.The ATAL-94proceedingswereformallypublishedinJanuary1995underthetitleIntelligent Agents, and included an extensive review article, a glossary, a list of key agent systems, and — unusually for the proceedings of an academic workshop — a full subject index. Thehighscienti?candproductionvaluesembodiedbytheATAL-94proceedingsappear to have been recognized by the community, and resulted inATAL proceedings being the most successful sequence of books published in Springer-Verlag s Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence series.

The Shape of Agency

Author : Joshua Shepherd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198866410
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Agency written by Joshua Shepherd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an account of agency which explains the control agents have over their behaviour, the nature of intentional action, the nature of skill, and the role that knowledge plays in extending the reach of an agent's action and skill.

Intention

Author : G. E. M. Anscombe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674003996
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Intention written by G. E. M. Anscombe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned. This is a welcome reprint of a book that continues to grow in importance.

The Works of Agency

Author : Hugh McCann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801485831
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Agency written by Hugh McCann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, McCann develops a unified perspective on human action. Written over a period of 25 years, the essays provide a comprehensive survey of the major topics in contemporary action theory. In four sections, the book addresses the ontology of action; the foundations of action; intention, will and freedom; and practical rationality. McCann works out a compromise between competing perspectives on the individuation of action; explores the foundations of action and defends a volitional theory; argues for a libertarian view of both the formation and the execution of intention; and considers the question of consistency in rational intentions, as well as the relationship between practical and theoretical reasoning.

The Forerunner of All Things

Author : Maria Heim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199331030
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Forerunner of All Things written by Maria Heim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action (karma) as intention. This book explores systematically how intention, agency, and moral psychology were interpreted in all branches of early Theravada thought, paying special attention to the thought of the 5th-century commentator Buddhaghosa.

Group Agency

Author : Christian List
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199591563
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Group Agency written by Christian List and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? How do we explain their behaviour? Can we treat them as accountable for their actions? List and Pettit offer original arguments, grounded in cutting-edge work on social choice, economics, and philosophy, to show there really are group agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them.

Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason

Author : Michael Bratman
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9781575861920
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason written by Michael Bratman and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bratman develops a planning theory of intention in this book.

Anscombe's Intention

Author : John Schwenkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019005204X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Anscombe's Intention written by John Schwenkler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of actions like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devoutly Catholic Anscombe thought that these actions made Truman a murderer, and thus unworthy of the university's honor-but that this verdict depended on an understanding of intentional action that had been widely rejected in contemporary moral philosophy. Intention was her attempt to work out that understanding and argue for its superiority over a conception of intention as an inner mental state. Though recognized universally as one of the definitive works in analytic philosophy of action, Anscombe's book is often dismissed as unsystematic or obscure, and usually read through the lens of philosophical concerns very far from her own. Schwenkler's Guide offers a careful and critical presentation of Anscombe's main lines of argument at a level appropriate to advanced undergraduates but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, moral philosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy. Further, it situates Intention in a context that emphasizes Anscombe's debts to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, and her engagement with the work of contemporaries like Gilbert Ryle and R.M. Hare, inviting new avenues of engagement with the ideas of historically important philosophers.

Motivation and Agency

Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198035497
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Motivation and Agency written by Alfred R. Mele and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What place does motivation have in the lives of intelligent agents? Mele's answer is sensitive to the concerns of philosophers of mind and moral philosophers and informed by empirical work. He offers a distinctive, comprehensive, attractive view of human agency. This book stands boldly at the intersection of philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and metaphysics.

Aspects of Agency

Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190659971
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Agency written by Alfred R. Mele and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mele develops a view of paradigmatically free actions--including decisions--as indeterministically caused by their proximal causes. He mounts a masterful defense of this thesis that includes solutions to problems about luck and control widely discussed in the literature on free will and moral responsibility.

Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency

Author : George Pavlakos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316248126
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency written by George Pavlakos and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agency in Action

Author : S. Coval
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401124221
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Agency in Action written by S. Coval and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental capabilities of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelligence and to computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains, empirical, experimental, and methodological studies will also appear from time to time. Sam Coval and Peter Campbell provide a painstaking and distinctive analysis of the nature of action and agency. They introduce a conception of acts which encompasses the purposes that motivate them, the beliefs on the basis of which they are undertaken, and the effects that they bring about. They compare and contrast their account with ones advanced by Davidson, Brand, Searle, Danto, and other, while elaborating its consequences for understanding the nature of alibis, mistakes, accidents, inadvertence, and the like. The valuable diagrams and the discussion of the software program they have developed, which implements their theory, amply displays the potential of combining philosophy and AI with law and other disciplines focused upon agency. J.H.F.