On planning: toward a natural history of goal attainment

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Humanities
Department Philosophy
Creator Thalos, Mariam G.
Title On planning: toward a natural history of goal attainment
Date 2008
Description The goal of the essay is to articulate some beginnings for an empirical approach to the study of agency, in the firm conviction that agency is subject to scientific scrutiny, and is not to be abandoned to high-brow aprioristic Philosophy;. Drawing on insights from decision analysis, game theory, general dynamics, physics and engineering, this essay will examine the diversity of planning phenomena, and in that way take some steps towards assembling rudiments for the budding science, in the process innovating (parts of) a technical vocabulary. The key is focus upon the organization of effort in time. This paper categorizes forms of organization of effort in time, and yields an analysis of both individual agency and coalitions of agents as forms of effort organized in time. Finally, it articulates precise questions pertaining to the natural (evolutionary) history of forms of agency (once upon a time referred to as 'Will') that we now find on the ground.
Type Text
Publisher Philosophical Papers
Volume 37
Issue 2
First Page 289
Last Page 317
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Thalos, M. G. (2008). On planning: toward a natural history of goal attainment. Philosophical Papers, 37(2), 289-317.
Rights Management (c)Philosophical Papers
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