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MISES AND LACHMANN ON HUMAN ACTIONalternative means to satisfy a particular end (say, there are twopossible keyboard keys that can produce the same sign), then, again,any relationship between ends and means cannot be deduced a priori:If the antecedent situation contains the agent’s having a desirefor each of two or more incompatible ends or her beingindifferent between alternative means to an intended end, thenit has the potential to explain in the reasons way whichever ofthe alternative actions occurs.(Ginet 1990:147)However, being capable of reconstructing the reasons for an actionfrom an antecedent situation is emphatically not the same as deducingeverything about action from reason. 11 In taking this further, it isnecessary to supplement Ebeling’s initial account through referenceto Mises’s notion of ‘setting aims’. According to Mises:Praxeology does not deal with technological problems, butwith the categorical essence of choice and action as such, withthe pure element of setting aims and applying means….Praxeology deals with choice and action and with theiroutcome.(Mises 1990:21)The reference to ‘setting aims’, and the acknowledgement thataction is purposive, allows the idea of intentionality to beintroduced. Thus, according to Mises, action consists in desiringsome preferred state of affairs to those pertaining at present,believing that certain actions would lead to this preferred state ofaffairs, aiming (or intending) to bring about this state of affairs, andconsequently performing the required action. 12 Mises’s theory thusshares the following assumptions with many theories of action,including rational choice theories (Bratman 1987):1 the methodological priority of intention in action;2 the desire-belief theory of intention in action. That is, theassumption that we understand intentional action, and actiondone with an intention, in terms of an agent’s desires and beliefs,where actions stand in appropriate relations to those desires andbeliefs;3 the strategy of extension. The assumption that once we have anadequate account of acting intentionally and acting with an45
STEPHEN D.PARSONSintention we have all the necessary materials for a satisfactorytreatment of future-directed intentions;4 combining 2 and 3 above: the reduction of future-directedintentions to appropriate desires and beliefs.It has been argued above that assumption 2 raises problems forMises’s own theory. However, assumptions 3 and 4 also raiseproblems, a possible resolution of which leads directly intoLachmann’s theory of human action.According to Bratman (1987), the attempt to extend anintentional account of action to deal with future-directed casesresults in two problems. The first problem is analogous to theproblem encountered by Buridan’s ass. Bratman argues that rationalintentions should be agglomerate. That is, if at one and the sametime I rationally intend, or aim, to A and rationally intend, or aim,to B then it should be both possible and rational for me, at the sametime, to intend or aim to A and to B. Thus, if two actions are knownto be compatible, I can have the intention or aim to perform both, aswell as the separate intention or aim to perform each. Also, if twoactions are known to be incompatible, I cannot have the intention oraim to perform both. However, suppose, on my way back fromwork one evening, I can stop at either of two book shops, but not atboth, and that both options are attractive. That is, I form an all-outjudgement that stopping at one is as desirable as stopping at theother. In this case, do I have both intentions or aims, or do I haveneither intention nor aim?The second problem can be illustrated as follows. Suppose I wantto buy copies of two books, and I know I will be in a certainbookstore. Further, I know that the bookstore will have one of thebooks, but not both, and do not know which one. In this case,although I intend or have an aim to buy both books, I believe Icannot. However, as I cannot intend or aim to do what I do notbelieve, then I cannot have the required intention or aim.Bratman argues the problems with theories sharing the aboveassumptions is that they do not recognise that we form futureintentions as parts of larger plans whose role is to aid the coordinationof activities over time. Consequently, Bratman arguesthat the desire/belief/reason model can only have relevance if it issituated within the context of plans. Practical reason thus has twolevels. On one level there are prior intentions and plans, which bothpose problems and provide filters on options as potential solutions.On another level are desires, beliefs and reasons, which enter as46
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