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Bratman on institutional agency [PDF]
In his recent book, Shared and Institutional Agency, Bratman attempts to defend realism about institutional agency while appealing only to ontologically modest foundations.
Brown, Jessica
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Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 69, Issue 4, Winter / hiver 2025.Abstract This article recounts the development of an ongoing community‐engaged research project that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. Drawing insight and inspiration from the activism and scholarship in environmental injustice in Canada and a specific understanding of environmental injustice as slow violence, this ...
Stephanie Rutherford +2 more
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Video recording of interview with Fred Bratman (Vol.1)
, 2004 2 micro videocassettes (ca. 3 hrs.)Title based on contents of the file. ; No reproduction of this material without permission of the Archivist.|The micro videocassettes and videocassettes located in micro videocassettes box 20 and VHS box 17.|The ...
Bratman, Fred
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Rethinking responsibility: An Abhidharma Buddhist view
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 549-570, September 2025.Abstract If reductionism about personal identity is true, “no one ever deserves to be punished for anything they did.” I call this the Responsible Agency Challenge. This paper addresses the question: How should we respond to this challenge? My response is inspired by the famous fifth century Buddhist Abhidharma philosopher, Vasubandhu, and the ...
Monima Chadha
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Self-Governing Policies: A Critique of Bratman [PDF]
, 2010 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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The agentive achievement of acceptance
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 3-24, July 2025.Abstract Is acceptance an act or a state? Jonathan Cohen is often seen as a proponent of the view that acceptance is a mental act. In contrast, Michael Bratman claims that acceptance is a mental state. This paper argues that the evidence supports a more subtle approach.
Samuel Boardman
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Morality, Friendship, and Collective Action
Journal of Social OntologyThis paper uses the tools of experimental philosophy to examine the nature of interpersonal normativity in collective action, focusing on cases of immoral collective action and collective action by friends.
Javier Gomez-Lavin, Matthew Rachar
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 854-886, May 2025.Abstract How should we respond to the humanity of others? Should we care for others' well‐being? Respect them as autonomous agents? Largely neglected is an answer we can find in the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism: we should love all.
P. Quinn White
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Modest Sociality: Continuities and Discontinuities
Journal of Social Ontology, 2014 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 ...
Elisabeth Pacherie
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Decision Theoretic Planning and the Bounded Rationality of BDI Agents
, 2002 We reconsider the BDI agents model by exploiting a decision theoretic planning framework together with a proposal for bounded rationality. In particular, we show how the interplay between a planner based on an anytime algorithm and a meta ...
Guido Boella, Michael Bratman
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