Practical Intersubjectivity and Normative Guidance: Bratman on Shared Agency

Practical guidance on sexual lifestyle and risk.

This article advocates using a critical thinking framework as a health promotion tool to help nurses promote thought and discussion in relation to sexual lifestyles. The aim is to encourage clients or confidants to assess sexual risk for themselves and others, and to promote safe sex.

Normative Practical Reasoning

1. Instrumental reasoning. Aristotle identified practical reasoning as reasoning that concludes in an act, and he was thinking of a non-mental act such as tasting food. But reasoning is a mental process, which takes place in the reasoner's mind. Its conclusion must be a mental state or a mental event; it cannot be a non-mental act. I therefore identify practical reasoning as reasoning that conc...

Practical competence and fluent agency*

My first attempts to drive a car were torture – for myself, my older brother (who unwisely had agreed to help teach me), and the family car. The car had a manual transmission and clutch, and we bucked and lurched around town. Each intersection, even each gear shift, posed a challenge that demanded my full attention – if only I could have given it. Instead, my mind was churning with embarrassmen...

Focusing , Intersubjectivity , and “ Therapeutic Intersubjectivity ”

The mirror matching system: A shared manifold for intersubjectivity

Empathy is the phenomenal experience of mirroring ourselves into others. It can be explained in terms of simulations of actions, sensations, and emotions which constitute a shared manifold for intersubjectivity. Simulation, in turn, can be sustained at the subpersonal level by a series of neural mirror matching systems. The article by Preston & de Waal (P&deW) has the merit of raising the issue...