Structures of Agency
Structures of Agency
副标题: Essays
ISBN: 9780195187717
作者: Michael E·Bratman
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA
出版年: 2007-1-4
页数: 336
定价: USD 30.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Michael Bratman is a highly distinguished philosopher known for his recent contributions to important debates on human agency. In this volume he tries to extend the reach of his theory, known as the "planning theory of intention and agency" which he has been developing over the last twenty years.
Bratman's primary concern is with what he calls "strong" forms of human agency--including forms of human agency that are the target of our talk about self-determination, self-government, and autonomy. The essays in this volume, a mixture of published and unpublished, explore the theoretical possibilities of using his planning theory with other concerns about phenomena of identification and with resources from hierarchical theories of agency. This work has been widely discussed, is unusually cohesive and focused, and will be very useful and influential in book form.