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Meaning-Adequacy and Social Critique: Toward a Phenomenological Critical Theory
In the present paper, I analyze the complex relationship of tension between Critical Theory and phenomenology from a sociological-theoretical...
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Why Conscience Matters: A Theory of Conscience and Its Relevance to Conscientious Objection in Medicine
Conscience is an idea that has significant currency in liberal democratic societies. Yet contemporary moral philosophical scholarship on conscience...
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Unconscious perception and central coordinating agency
One necessary condition on any adequate account of perception is clarity regarding whether unconscious perception exists. The issue is complicated,...
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Conceptualizing Agency
Here we present a systematic analysis of the phenomenon Phenomena of semiotic agencyAgency Semiotic agency : a capacity for acting purposefully and...
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Stakeholder Theory: Toward a Classical Institutional Economics Perspective
Stakeholder theorists have traditionally objected to the neoclassical conception of the firm as a vehicle for maximizing profit or shareholder...
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Unchosen transformative experiences and the experience of agency
Unchosen transformative experiences—transformative experiences that are imposed upon an agent by external circumstances—present a fundamental problem...
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Evolutionary Economics and the Theory of Cultural Evolution
“Evolutionary economics” is a heterogeneous field of economic research that still lacks a coherent theoretical foundation. Some contributions dealing...
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Alternative Axiomatization for Logics of Agency in a G3 Calculus
In a recent paper, Negri and Pavlović (Studia Logica 1–35, 2020) have formulated a decidable sequent calculus for the logic of agency, specifically...
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Proxy Assertions and Agency: The Case of Machine-Assertions
The world is witnessing a rise in speech-enabled devices serving as epistemic informants to their users. Some philosophers take the view that because...
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A regulative theory of basic intentional omissions
The folk picture of agency suggests that human beings have basic agency over some of their omissions. For example, someone may follow through on a...
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Using ‘Engaged Agency’ to Re-think Sustainability and Accountability Research
This chapter draws on the scholarship of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (The primacy of perception: and other chapters on phenomenological psychology, the...
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Conspiracy Theory Belief: A Sane Response to an Insane World?
Are conspiracy theory beliefs pathological? That depends on what is meant by "pathological." This paper begins by unpacking that ill-defined and...
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Threats to epistemic agency in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs
A good therapeutic relationship in mental health services is a predictor of positive clinical outcomes for people who seek help for distressing...
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Metz’s Relational Moral Theory and Environmental Ethics
Metz’s contribution to environmental ethics is a novel theory of moral status, which he argues explains the intuition that although we have direct...
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What Comes After Postcolonial Theory?
This essay explores possible paths after postcolonial theory, with the after understood not as a negation, but as a form of inheritance and the...
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Beyond the Moral Influence Theory? A Critical Examination of Vargas’s Agency Cultivation Model of Responsibility
This paper repudiates Manuel Vargas’s attempt to supplant the traditional moral influence theory of responsibility (MIT) with his ‘agency cultivation...
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Identity as institution: power, agency, and the self
This paper addresses issues of agency and self-identity on the basis of a phenomenology of embodiment. It considers a tension in accounts of...