Includes bibliographical references and index.

Planning, temporally extended agency, and self-governance. Reflection, planning, and temporally extended agency ; Valuing and the will ; Hierarchy, circularity, and double reduction ; Two problems about human agency ; Nozick on free will. Appendix: Nozick, free will, and the problem of agential authority ; A desire of one's own ; Autonomy and hierarchy ; Three forms of agential commitment: reply to Cullity and Gerrans -- ; Planning agency, autonomous agency ; Three theories of self-governance -- Extending the theory temptation revisited ; Shared valuing and frameworks for practical reasoning.

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