Time in Action

This book explores the role of time in rational agency and practical reasoning. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers working on the philosophy of time, metaphysics of action, action, theory, practical reasoning, ethical theory, moral psychology, and rational justification.

Autorentext

Carla Bagnoli is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. She has written extensively on moral dilemmas, moral authority, and responsibility, and is the editor of Constructivism in Ethics (Cambridge UP, 2013) and Morality and the Emotions (Oxford UP, 2011). Her Ethical Constructivism is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

Inhalt

Introduction

Carla Bagnoli

Part I. Acting in Time

1. Verbs of Action and Acting in Time

Jennifer Hornsby

2. Action, Cubes, and Traces

Constantine Sandis

3. Temporality and Determinate Situation-Specific Truths

Arto Latinen

Part II. Diachronic Self-Governance

4. A Planning Agent's Self-Governance Over Time

Acting Together with Oneself over Time: Appendix to "A Planning Agent's Self-Governance Over Time"

Michael E. Bratman

5. The Structures of Temporally Extended Agents

Luca Ferrero

6. Agency and Time

Abe Roth

7. Sticking to it and Settling: Commitments, Normativity, and the Future

Caroline Arruda

8. Extended Agency and the Problem of Diachronic Autonomy

Julia Nefsky and Sergio Tenenbaum

9. Hard Times: Self-governance, Freedom to Change, and Normative Adjustment

Carla Bagnoli

Part III. Failures of Temporal Agency

10. Weakness and the Memory of Resolutions

Laurent Jaffro

11. Inverted Akrasia

Monika Betzler

12. Individual Time-Bias and Social Discounting

Brian Hedden