Agential Authority
Autonomous Effects
bratman
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choice
coordination
david
Deliberative Requirement
Den Hartogh
Deontic Logic
Dependence Thesis
Desire Belief Reasons
Dispositions View
Dynamic Choice
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Evaluative Ranking
exclusionary
Exclusionary Reasons
game
game theory ethics
gauthier
Instrumental Rationality
legal obligation theory
Means End Coherence
michael
MIT Press
Mixed Games
moral agency
philosophy of action
practical reasoning
Preference Thesis
Prior Intention
Pro Attitudes
pure
Pure Coordination Game
Pure Nash Equilibrium
rational commitment
resolute
Resolute Choice
Schelling's Case
Schelling’s Case
self-binding in decision making
Temptation Case
Toxin Puzzle
Volitional Dimension
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- ISBN 9781138265394
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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There are a number of problems in philosophy that seem to share a similar possible solution: 'Why do promises and contracts bind?', 'Why ought citizens and judges obey the law?' and 'Can we realize the gains to be made from cooperation?'. All three problems (as well as some others) share a possible solution in the form of rational internal commitment. Reasons and Intentions is a 'state-of-the-art' overview of the relevant positions on the possibility of such commitment, including critical ones. The introduction provides a survey of the central problem of the volume, 'how the will can bind itself and still be instrumental in nature', and the various positions which are further examined in the contributions. Addressing the question of the relation between intentions and action, the considerations which make an intention rational and how this translates into our conception of (moral) agency, this book brings together specially commissioned essays by the leading scholars in the field.
Bruno Verbeek is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
