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    Supports→Bratman's account of shared intention is defective because intentions of the form 'I intend that we X' violate the condition that one can only control one's own actions.

    No agent can form a genuinely action-guiding plan over behavior that depends irreducibly on a separate agent's autonomous choice, as Michael Bratman himself acknowledges in his conditions for mesh subplans.

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    Key Terms

    Action-guiding(as used in ethics)
    Capable of actually helping someone decide what to do in a real situation, rather than being purely theoretical.
    Autonomous choice(contrasted with preference construction)
    A decision you make freely, on your own, without being forced or pressured by outside circumstances.
    Irreducibly(describing how 'mass' appears in Newton's second law)
    In a way that cannot be broken down into simpler parts; something that has to remain as is.
    Michael Bratman(the philosopher whose theory is cited)
    A modern American philosopher who studies how people make decisions and act rationally, especially focusing on the role of planning and intentions.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)

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    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    mesh subplans(in Bratman's theory of planning)
    Smaller plans that fit together properly and don't conflict with each other or with your larger plans.
    plan(in philosophy of action)
    A detailed intention about what you will do and how, that you actually commit to following.

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