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| Author | : Michael Bratman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Act (Philosophy) |
| ISBN | : 0197580890 |
"A fundamental feature of our individual, human agency is its organization over time. Think again about growing food in a garden, or taking a trip, or writing a book. A central idea is that our capacity for planning agency is at the heart of this cross-temporal organization of our individual, human agency. Appeal to this role of our capacity for planning agency both fits our commonsense self-understanding and, I conjecture, would be a part of an empirically informed psychological theory that begins with-- but potentially adjusts--this commonsense self-understanding. The basic thought is that we are resource-limited agents who achieve cross-temporal organization in part by settling in advance on prior, partial plans. These somewhat stable partial plans help pose problems of means and preliminary steps, and in pursuit of needed coordination help filter potential options. They thereby provide a background framework for downstream thought and action"--
| Author | : Michael E. Bratman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Act (Philosophy) |
| ISBN | : 9780197580912 |
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. Shared and Institutional Agency develops a planning theory of social rules and puts forth an organized institution as involving authority-according social rules of procedure. The view that emerges sees our capacity for planning agency as a core.
| Author | : Kirk Ludwig |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0198789998 |
Kirk Ludwig presents a philosophical account of institutional action, such as action by corporations and nation states. He argues that it can be fully understood in terms of the agency of individuals, and concepts derived from our understanding of individual action. He thus argues for a strong form of methodological individualism.
| Author | : Thomas B. Lawrence |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2009-07-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0521518555 |
This book contains a series of essays and empirical case studies exploring the nature of institutional work.
| Author | : James Mahoney |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0521118832 |
The essays in this book contribute to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change, providing a theoretical framework and empirical applications.
| Author | : Michael Bratman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1999-01-13 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 9780521637275 |
A collection of essays is concerned with deepening our understanding of the notion of intention.
| Author | : Sally Anne Haslanger |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2012-10-25 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199892628 |
In this collection of previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory and on the resources of contemporary analytic philosophy to develop the idea that gender and race are positions within a structure of social relations. Explicating the workings of these interlocking structures provides tools for understanding and combatting social injustice.
| Author | : Michael Bratman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199339996 |
Human beings act together in characteristic ways that matter to us a great deal. This book explores the conceptual, metaphysical and normative foundations of such sociality. It argues that appeal to the planning structures involved in our individual, temporally extended agency provides substantial resources for understanding these foundations of our sociality.
| Author | : Thomas B. Lawrence |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2009-07-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1139479857 |
The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life - such as marriage and bureaucracy - act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they operate, providing strong accounts of the processes through which institutions govern action. In contrast, the study of institutional work reorients these traditional concerns, shifting the focus to understanding how action affects institutions. This book sets a research agenda within the field of institutional work by analyzing the ways in which individuals, groups, and organizations work to create, maintain, and disrupt the institutions that structure their lives. Through a series of essays and case studies, it explores the conceptual core of institutional work, identifies institutional work strategies, provides exemplars for future empirical research, and embeds the concept within broader sociological debates and ideas.
| Author | : John Heil |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0198865457 |
In Appearance in Reality, John Heil addresses a question at the heart of metaphysics: how are the appearances related to reality, how does what we find in the sciences comport with what we encounter in everyday experience and in the laboratory? Objects, for instance, appear to be colourful, noisy, self-contained, and massively interactive. Physics tells us they are dynamic swarms of colourless particles, or disturbances in fields, or something equally strange. Is what we experience illusory, present only in our minds? But then what are minds? Do minds elude physics? Or are the physicist's depictions mere constructs with no claim to reality? Perhaps reality is hierarchical: physics encompasses the fundamental things, the less than fundamental things are dependent on, but distinct from these. Heil's investigation advances a fourth possibility: the scientific image (what we have in physics) affords our best guide to the nature of what the appearances are appearances of.
