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Memory, intention, and movements of the mind
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 439-446, June 2026.This is a response to a discussion of two chapters of my recent book, Movements of the mind, that focus on the relation between intention and working memory. I argue that intention is a type of practical memory for action and that its properties are illuminated by drawing on empirical research on working memory.
Wayne Wu
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Self-Governing Policies: A Critique of Bratman
, 2023 Michael Bratman in his essay “Reflection, Planning and Temporally Extended Agency” espouses a reductive view of agency based largely upon what he calls “self-governing policies.” Combining self-governing policies with a Lockean approach to personal ...
Muckle, Robert J.
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Modest Sociality: Continuities and Discontinuities
Journal 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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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 641-651, May 2026.ABSTRACT We are social animals that seek to live a life that is, in some sense, shared with others. But what exactly do we want in wanting to live a shared life? First, I seek to show that this question is not as straightforward as it might initially appear. Second, I present an answer to this question, which makes reference to the thought that we have
James Laing
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Shared Agency in Modest Sociality
Journal of Social Ontology, 2014 A contribution to a symposium on Michael Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together.
Kirk Ludwig
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Shared Agency on Gilbert and deep continuity
Journal of Social Ontology, 2015 I compare Bratman’s theory with Gilbert’s. I draw attention to their similarities, query Bratman’s claim that his theory is the more parsimonious, and point to one theoretical advantage of Gilbert’s theory.
Smith Thomas H.
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The Generality of Normative Thought
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 1, Page 51-64, January 2026.ABSTRACT What is it to think a generic normative thought of the form “Human beings should exercise regularly” or “Human beings must keep promises”? I argue that although such thoughts resemble, in different respects, intentions and evaluative beliefs, they are not, first and foremost, either of those types of states.
Jeremy David Fix
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Normativity in joint action [PDF]
, 2019 The debate regarding the nature of joint action has come to a stalemate due to a dependence on intuitional methods. Normativists, such as Margaret Gilbert, argue that action-relative normative relations are inherent in joint action, while non ...
Rachar, Matthew, Gomez-Lavin, Javier
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Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together (Michael E. Bratman)
Gogoa, 2017 Shared agency eskala txikiko ekintza kolektiboari buruzko lana da, jar- duera sozialak ekite indibidualarekin daukan harremanaren ingurukoa.
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