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While this issue is not at the heart of Bratman’s preoccupations, I think we can safely assume that he would want his account of intentions to be compatible with physicalism. I won’t dwell here on Anscombe’s metaphysical view, except to say that she was no materialist herself but was also highly suspicious of Cartesian dualism (Anscombe 2008). Suffice it to say that many of the philosophers who nowadays embrace the view that intentions have an epistemic function, would want this claim to be compatible with a physicalist stance.