Valuing and the Will

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ID23645596
AutoresMichael E Bratman (0000-0001-9424-3537, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Páginas47-67
Data de publicação2007-01-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoStructures of Agency (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195187717.003.0003
OpenAlexW4247748829
ISBN9780195187717
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8

In “Free Agency,” Gary Watson argued that an account of free agency needs to distinguish what a person wants or desires—what a person is to some extent moved to do—from what a person values. Even when one values what one desires, the motivational strength of the desire may not correspond to the extent to which one values what the desire is for. This chapter describes a model of valuing as a higher-order policy of weights in practical reasoning. It makes a proposal that ties an important kind of reflective valuing to the will of an agent whose agency is temporally extended. Intentions, plans, and policies were initially introduced on top of prior structures of considered desires. The chapter proceeds by way of a project of Paul Grice's “creature construction”: such policies about weights are a further development of planning structures, planning structures introduced earlier in the “construction” to support cross-temporal and social organization. The chapter also discusses desires, considered desires, and deliberation as well as planning agents and hierarchy.

Agency (philosophy) · Business · Deliberation · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Law and economics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Structure and agency · Watson · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy