Author | Coval, S. C. (Samuel Charles), 1931-, author |
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Title | Agency in Action [electronic resource] : The Practical Rational Agency Machine / by S. C. Coval, P. G. Campbell |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1992 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2422-5 |
Descript | XVII, 207 p. online resource |
1. Action as Explanation -- 1. Common Ground and Broad Theories -- 2. Conditions on A Theory of Action -- 3. Grading the Theories -- 4. Is The Intentional Intrinsic or Extrinsic to Action? -- 5. The Intentional -- 2. AGENCY: ITS TERMS AND RELATIONS -- 1. The Need For Agency Theory -- 2. The Presuppositional Terms -- 2.3 Distinctions Among the Attitudes -- 3. The States of Practical Rational Agency and their Functions -- 4. Concatenation of Content and the Function Of Belief -- 5. Distinctions between the Practical States in the Process -- 3. The Rational Processes Of Agency -- 1. Pre-Practical Reasoning: From Proto-Desire To Desire-To -- 2. Practical Reasoning: From Desire To Efficacious Intention -- 3. The Practical Syllogism: Desire -- 4. The Practical Syllogism: Intention -- 5. Intending -- 6. Theoretical Smoothness -- 7. Model 11 -- 8. Autonomy -- 4. The Semantics Of Action -- 1. Action: The Explanatory Object -- 2. Intentional Action -- 3. Unintentionality -- 4. The Extra-Intentional -- 5. Responsibility -- 5. A Design Document for Pragma -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Action -- 3. Mistake -- 4. Accident -- 5. Inadvertence -- Appendix 1. Notation -- Appendix 2. -- 1. Objects in the Logical Space Of Action -- 2. Agency Stream Profiles and their Corresponding Explanatory Obects -- Notes