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Self-Governing Policies: A Critique of Bratman [PDF]
, 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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Lifestyle 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
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The 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
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The Philosophy of Comparative Psychology
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT The philosophy of comparative psychology investigates a range of issues connected to the study of animal minds. These include first‐order questions about the nature of certain cognitive traits, the cognitive abilities implicated in their exercise, and the distribution of these traits in the animal kingdom; and second‐order questions about how ...
Richard Moore +2 more
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Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents
Modern 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
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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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Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact
Philosophy 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
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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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Intention as practical memory and the tasks of action theory
Mind &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
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