Time in Action - The Temporal Structure of Rational Agency and Practical Thought

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Carla Bagnoli
• Assisted by: Carla Bagnoli (Editor), Bagnoli Carla (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032246864
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3224686-4
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy