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    Supports→In a Bratman case, the agent's actions are driven by intentions to try to perform each action rather than intentions to perform each action outright

    In a Bratman case, the agent merely intends to try to φ and intends to try to Θ

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    Even if Bratman's argument defeats the Simple View [see McCann 1986, Knobe 2006], it doesn't rule out some type of causal analysis of acting intentionally; it doesn't even rule out such an analysis that takes the crucial controlling cause to be an intention in every instance. One might suppose, for example, that (i) in a Bratman case, the agent merely intends to try to φ and intends to try to Θ, and that (ii) it is these intentions that drive the agent's actions [Mele 1997]. The analysis in (7**

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