Shared and Institutional Agency - Toward a Planning Theory of Human Practical Organization (Paperback)

Our human lives involve remarkable forms of practical organization- diachronic organization of individual activity; small-scale organization of shared action; and the organization of institutions. In this book, Michael Bratman argues that the key to these multiple, inter-related forms of human practical organization is our capacity for planning agency. Drawing on earlier work on the roles of planning agency in our human, cross-temporal and small-scale social organization, it focuses on the role of planning agency within our organized institutions, whether a religious congregation, a small business, a professional association, a city council, a university, a non-profit organization, a corporation, a political party, a legal system, or a democratic state. Shared and Institutional Agency draws on ideas, inspired by H.L.A. Hart, that our organized institutions are rule-guided, and that to understand this, we need a theory of social rules. This book develops a planning theory of social rules and puts forth an organized institution as involving authority-according social rules of procedure. This supports a model of organized institutions that makes room for pluralistic divergence and leads to a model of institutional intention and institutional intentional agency. The view that emerges sees our capacity for planning agency as a core capacity that underlies not only string quartets and informal social rules, but also the rule-guided structure of organized institutions and institutional agency.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2022
Authors:	Michael E. Bratman (Professor of Philosophy and U. G. and Abbie Birch Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences)
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-758090-5
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Promotions
LSN:	0-19-758090-4
Barcode:	9780197580905

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