ABSTRACT
Praxiology occurs to be an important perspective in action theory, which shows how we can improve our understanding of planning when confronted with influential contemporary accounts. This chapter focuses on the intersection between two approaches to planning: the one proposed in the planning theory of intention by Michael E. Bratman, and the one called praxiology, which is focused on human effectiveness. It aims to explore as a preparation of praxiology for its meeting with planning theory of intention (PTI). The chapter shows that PTI, which has been proposed by Bratman, offers the most attractive framework for a praxiological approach to planning. The Kotarbinskian approach to plans, incompetently opting for plan externalism in action theory, is free from the problem of identification of plans and future-directed intentions. Kotarbinski paid philosophical attention to plans long before they entered the vivid debates on action theory and artificial intelligence.
