Philip Cohen Intention Is Choice With Commitment 1990
[TOC] Title: Intention Is Choice With Commitment Author: Philip Cohen et. al. Publish Year: 1990 Review Date: Tue, Jan 30, 2024 url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0004370290900555 Summary of paper Contribution This paper delves into the principles governing the rational balance between an agent’s beliefs, goals, actions, and intentions, offering valuable insights for both artificial agents and a theory of human action. It focuses on clarifying when an agent can abandon their goals and how strongly they are committed to these goals. The formalism used in the paper captures several crucial aspects of intentions, including an analysis of Bratman’s three characteristic functional roles of intentions and how agents can avoid intending all the unintended consequences of their actions. Furthermore, the paper discusses how intentions can be shaped based on an agent’s relevant beliefs and other intentions or goals. It also introduces a preliminary concept of interpersonal commitments by relating one agent’s intentions to their beliefs about another agent’s intentions or beliefs. ...