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Practical Intersubjectivity and Normative Guidance: Bratman on Shared Agency

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2015
In an important new book on shared agency, Michael Bratman develops an account of the normative demand for the coordination of intentions amongst participants in shared agency.
Roth Abraham Sesshu
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Shared Agency: Replies to Ludwig, Pacherie, Petersson, Roth, and Smith

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2015
These are replies to the discussions by Kirk Ludwig, Elizabeth Pacherie, Björn Petersson, Abraham Roth, and Thomas Smith of Michael E. Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Bratman Michael E.
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Pollock on Practical Reasoning

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2001
The epistemologist John Pollock has implemented computationally an architecture for a rational agent which he calls OSCAR. OSCAR models both practical and theoretical (or epistemic) reasoning.
David Hitchcock
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Bratman i prakseologia minimalna

open access: yesEthics in Progress, 2013
The paper is an introductory essay to the Polish translation of M.E.  Bratman’s paper The Fecundity of Planning Agency. Instead of summarizing the  main drifts of Bratman’s work, the author tries to show a few important  parallels between his approach to
Piotr Makowski
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Wellbeing During Blue Space Visits: The Role of Activity and Environment Type in a National Population Sample of 95,790 English Adults

open access: yesLifestyle Medicine, Volume 7, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Interactions with natural environments are associated with benefits for health and wellbeing, yet it remains unclear whether different types of nature spaces confer distinct benefits. The present study investigated (i) whether visits to blue spaces, such as rivers, lakes, canals and coasts, are associated with greater ...
Michael A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Actus Reus of Attempts

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 785-814, September 2026.
This paper gives an account of the actus reus for a criminal attempt. Conduct that is more than merely preparatory, we argue, intrudes on the same protected domain as the complete offence. This takes a normative approach to actus reus, focusing on the reasons that the defendant acted against.
Angelo Ryu, Trenton Sewell
wiley   +1 more source

Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 592-611, July 2026.
Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
wiley   +1 more source

Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 106-119, July 2026.
ABSTRACT It is natural to think that one person touches another when their bodies make direct contact. However, much interpersonal touch is not like this. We often touch people through things like their clothing. But this raises a puzzle: How can you touch someone without directly touching the surface of their body?
William Hornett, Robert Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

Modest Sociality: Continuities and Discontinuities

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2015
A central claim in Michael Bratman’s account of shared agency is that there need be no radical conceptual, metaphysical or normative discontinuity between robust forms of small-scale shared intentional agency, i.e., modest sociality, and individual ...
Pacherie Elisabeth
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Intention as practical memory and the tasks of action theory

open access: yesMind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 425-431, June 2026.
In this paper, I raise two challenges to Wayne Wu's proposal that intentions are practical memories. The first questions whether practical memories possess the functional roles that Michael Bratman's influential planning theory identifies for intention.
Mikayla Kelley
wiley   +1 more source

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