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Title: Is an agreement an exchange of intentions?
Author/Creator: Mintoff, Joe
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: Margaret Gilbert has argued that an agreement is not exchange of promises, since no such exchange plays all the roles she claims are distinctive of agreements. After briefly discussing the notion of intention and the principles governing intentions, I argue that a certain type of exchange of intentions - in which one person forms a conditional intention to act if the other does, and the other forms an unconditional intention to act on the presumption that the first will do what they have said - plays all these roles, and so conclude that an agreement is in fact an exchange of intentions.
Relation: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 85, Issue 1, p. 44-67
Relation: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0279-0750
Date: 2004
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Keyword(s): reason; obligation; action; condition; individual; intention; promise; exchange
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34408
Identifier: ISSN:0279-0750

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