Abstract

In this paper I discuss and develop suggestions concerning how to use systems of modal logic to analyse notions pertaining to agency. In the first part I deal with the accounts of Pörn, Brown, and Belnap, thus motivating the search for a more finegrained framework. The first step in the development of such a framework is the adoption of a rich semantical structure inspired by Gerd Sommerhoff’s theory of goal-directedness. Next I argue that this framework can be used as the basis for a sufficiently complex logic of agency. I study the proposed logic in the last part of the paper.

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