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Earlier versions of this paper were read and usefully criticized at colloquia at CUNY Graduate Center, University of California at Irvine, Stanford University, and University of California at Berkeley, at a symposium on Action, Responsibility and Blame at California State College at Sonoma, and at the 1978 Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association. I am particularly indebted to Robert Audi, Kent Bach, Charles Culmer, Kit Fine, Ian Hacking, Kim McCall, Robert Schwartz, John Searle, and John Taurek, as well as to the stimulating paper of Davidson's cited in Note 4. I want especially to thank John Perry for his invaluable assitance. Work on this paper was supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and by a Graves Award in the Humanities.
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Bratman, M. Simple intention. Philosophical Studies 36, 245–259 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00372629
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00372629