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Planning, Time, and Self-Governance - Essays in Practical Rationality (Paperback)
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Planning, Time, and Self-Governance - Essays in Practical Rationality (Paperback)
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Our human capacity for planning agency plays central roles in the
cross-temporal organization of our agency, in our acting and
thinking together (both at a time and over time), and in our
self-governance (both at a time and over time). Intentions can be
understood as states in such a planning system. The practical
thinking at the bottom of this planning capacity is guided by norms
that enjoin synchronic plan consistency and means-end coherence as
well as forms of plan stability over time. The essays in this book
aim to deepen our understanding of these norms and to defend their
status as norms of practical rationality for planning agents. The
general guidance by these planning norms has many pragmatic
benefits, especially given our cognitive and epistemic limits. But
appeal to these general pragmatic benefits does not fully explain
the normative force of these norms in the particular case. In
response to this challenge some think these norms are, at bottom,
norms of theoretical rationality on one's beliefs; some think these
norms are constitutive of intentional agency; some think they are
norms of interpretation; and some think the idea of such norms of
practical rationality is a myth. These essays chart an alternative
path. This path sees these planning norms as tracking conditions of
a planning agent's self-governance, both at a time and over time.
It seeks associated models of such self-governance. And it appeals
to the idea that the end of one's self-governance over time, while
not essential to intentional agency per se, is, within the planning
framework, rationally self-sustaining and a keystone of a
rationally stable reflective equilibrium that involves the norms of
plan rationality. This end is thereby in a position to play a role
in our planning framework that parallels the role of a concern with
quality of will within the framework of the reactive emotions, as
understood by Peter Strawson.
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