Rational and Social Agency The Philosophy of Michael Bratman [Hardcover]

Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology. This is a collection of critical essays by some of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished figures, including Margaret Gilbert, Richard Holton, Christine Korsgaard, Alfred Mele, Elijah Milgram, Kieran Setiya, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Scott Shapiro, Michael Smith, J. David Velleman, R. Jay Wallace. It also contains an introduction by the editors, situating Bratman's work and its broader significance.

The essays in this volume engage with ideas and themes prominent in Bratman's work. The volume also includes a lengthy reply by Bratman that breaks new ground and deepens our understanding of the nature of action, rationality, and social agency.

1. Introduction
2. Richard Holton Intention as a Model of Belief
3. Alfred Mele The Single Phenomenon View and Experimental Philosophy
4. Kieran Setiya Intention, Plans, and Ethical Rationalism
5. J. David Velleman What Good is a Will?
6. R. Jay Wallace Reasons, Policies, and the Real Self: Bratman on Identification
7. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord and Michael Smith Desires . . . and Beliefs . . . of One's Own
8. Elijah Milgram Segmented Agency
9. Christine M. Korsgaard The Normative Constitution of Agency
10. Margaret Gilbert The Nature of Agreements: A Solution to Some Puzzles About Claim-Rights and Joint Intention
11. Scott J. Shapiro Massively Shared Agency
12. Michael E. Bratman Rational and Social Agency: Reflections and Replies

Index

The editors are to be commended for assembling an outstanding collection of essays, which, like Bratman's own corpus, are essential reading for anyone working in Anglophone philosophy of action. --Michael Brent,Journal of Moral Philosophy

All who take an interest in the contemporary philosophy of action should form a plan to read this excellenl“Í