Bratman i prakseologia minimalna

• Authors: Piotr Makowski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The paper is an introductory essay to the Polish translation of M.E.  Bratman’s paper The Fecundity of Planning Agency. Instead of summarizing the  main drifts of Bratman’s work, the author tries to show a few important  parallels between his approach to action theory and the so-called praxiology  (or ‘theory of efficient action’) proposed by Tadeusz Kotarbiński. It occurs that there are important similarities between their approaches both to specific problems in action theory (as: concept of an agent, the role of Buridan’s Ass, or mind-infusion of actions) and to the general question how to understood agency (norms of planning). A brief presentation of these similarities gives two central results. Firstly, it allows to interpret Bratman as a kind of praxiologist, and, secondly, it shows that praxiological thinking proposed by Kotarbiński is still a vital perspective in contemporary action theory.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 78-86

Dates

published

2013-09-01

Contributors

author

Piotr Makowski

References

• Bittner, R. 1980. What Reason Demands, transl. Th. Talbot, Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
• Bratman, M.E. 1987. Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason, Cambridge: Harvard UP.
• Kotarbiński, T. 1955. Traktat o dobrej robocie, Warszawa, Ossolineum.
• Kotarbiński, T. 1999. Dzieła wszystkie: Prakseologia, Część I, Ossolineum.
• Makowski, P. 2012. Po metaetyce. Dobro i powinność w etykach naturalistycznych, Kraków: TAiWPN Universitas.
• Makowski, P. w przygotowaniu A. “Does Praxiology Rest on a Mistake?”.
• Makowski, P. w przygotowaniu B. “Intention Inertia and the Plasticity of Planning”.
• Zhu, J. 2010. “On the principle of intention agglomeration”. Synthese Vol. 175: 89–99.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2013.2.7