Modeling intentional agency: a neo-Gricean framework

Abstract This paper analyzes three contrasting strategies for modeling intentional agency in contemporary analytic philosophy of mind and action, draws parallels between them similar scientific model-construction. Gricean involves identifying primitive building blocks agency, up from such to prototypically agential behaviors. Analogical is based on picking out an exemplary type which used as a model other types. Theoretical reasoning about terms some domain-general framework lawlike regularities, no detailed reference particular or exemplars (although it may involve coarse-grained heuristic them). Given the procedural approaches that they employ different types knowledge embody, are argued provide mutually complementary perspectives agency.