Planning, Time, and Self-Governance: Essays in Practical Rationality

by Michael E. Bratman

Our human capacity for planning agency plays central roles in the cross-temporal organization of our agency, in our acting and thinking together (both at a time and over time), and in our self-governance (both at a time and over time). Intentions can be understood as states in such a planning system. The practical thinking at the bottom of this planning capacity is guided by norms that enjoin synchronic plan consistency and means-end coherence as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190867868
• ISBN13: 9780190867867
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"