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Pathways between people, wildlife and environmental justice in cities

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 575-595, March 2025.
Abstract Wildlife are increasingly recognized as critical to urban ecosystems, but the impacts and benefits of wildlife on people in cities are poorly understood. Environmental justice scholarship has concluded that elements of the urban environment can create or exacerbate social inequity, but human–wildlife interactions have not been considered ...
Alex McInturff   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Una prospettiva sull’agency: Michael E. Bratman

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper I intend to reconstruct Bratman’s perspective on human agency by focusing on his attempt to defend the agent’s role within an event-causal theory of action.
Ginocchietti, Marianna
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Decision Theoretic Planning and the Bounded Rationality of BDI Agents

open access: yes, 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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Aligning with the Good [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
IN “CONSTRUCTIVISM, AGENCY, AND THE PROBLEM of Alignment,” Michael Bratman considers how lessons from the philosophy of action bear on the question of how best to construe the agent’s standpoint in the context of a constructivist theory of practical ...
Mitchell-Yellin, Benjamin
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Bratman, Searle, and Simplicity. A comment on Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2014
Michael Bratman’s work is established as one of the most important philosophical approaches to group agency so far, and Shared Agency, A Planning Theory of Acting Together confirms that impression. In this paper I attempt to challenge the book’s central
Björn Petersson
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Revelatory Regret and the Standpoint of the Agent

open access: yes, 2017
The idea of living with no regrets has found such broad popular appeal that it is often cliché. Regret has been put to various but often related philosophical ends by thinkers as diverse as Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, and more recently, Michael ...
White, Justin, Justin F. White
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Self-Governing Policies: A Critique of Bratman

open access: yes, 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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Modest Sociality: Continuities and Discontinuities

open access: yesJournal 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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Three-year-olds' understanding of the consequences of joint commitments

open access: yes, 2013
No external funding has supported the current work.Here we investigate the extent of children's understanding of the joint commitments inherent in joint activities. Three-year-old children either made a joint commitment to assemble a puzzle with a puppet
Carpenter, Malinda   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Notes of an Inklings Scholar: Musings on Myth and History, Promises and Secrecy, Ethical Reviewing, and the Limits of Authorial Intent

open access: yes, 2022
Five mini-essays proposing hypotheses on topics in J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis scholarship. 1. The Expansion and Contraction of Tolkien\u27s Imagination: how and why his burgeoning sub-creation began to contract and systematize in his later years. 2. A
Bratman, David
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