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Organismal Agency Biological Concepts and Their Philosophical Foundations
This book explores the notion of organismal agency from the perspective of both philosophy and biology. The two sections of the book delve into...
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Agency and aesthetic identity
Schiller says that “it is only through beauty that man makes his way to freedom.” Here I attempt to defend a claim in the same spirit as Schiller’s...
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Normativity, Autonomy, and Agency: A Critical Review of Three Essays on Agency in Nature, and a Modest Proposal for the Road Ahead
Has the renewal of interest in the ostensible agency of living beings signaled an advance from a merely heuristic Kantian sense of purposiveness to...
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Structuring embodied minds: attention and perceptual agency
Perception is, at least sometimes, something we do. This paper is concerned with how to account for perceptual agency (i.e., the active aspect of...
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Structures Supporting Virtuous Moral Agency: An Empirical Enquiry
It has been argued that organizational structures (the way tasks are defined, allocated, and coordinated) can influence moral agency in...
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What is Agency? A View from Autonomy Theory
The theory of biological autonomy provides a naturalized characterization of agency, understood as a general biological phenomenon that extends...
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Justification and epistemic agency
This paper presents a novel account of what motivates internalism about justification in light of recent attempts to undermine the intuitions long...
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Michael Bratman: The Notion of Shared Agency in Meshing Sub-plans
This paper focuses on one of the major controversies of collective action, i.e. Shared Agency. The objective of my paper is to explain the relevance...
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Artificial Intelligence and Agency: Tie-breaking in AI Decision-Making
Determining the agency-status of machines and AI has never been more pressing. As we progress into a future where humans and machines more closely...
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Accounting for doxastic agency: Mental action and self-awareness
Uncontroversially, individuals exercise agency in acting; can we say the same about believing? This paper argues that subjects do indeed exercise...
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Perceptual justification and the demands of effective agency
Pragmatist responses to skepticism about empirical justification have mostly been underwhelming, either presupposing implausible theses like...
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The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems
The increasing popularity of artificial cognitive enhancements raises the issue of their impact on the agent’s personal autonomy, and issues...
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Imagination, endogenous attention, and mental agency
This paper develops a mechanistic account of basic mental agency by identifying similarities between two of its major exemplars: endogenous attention...
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Agency, Goal-Directed Behavior, and Part-Whole Relationships in Biological Systems
In this essay we aim to present some considerations regarding a minimal but concrete notion of agency and goal-directed behavior that are useful for...
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What Is Agency? A View from Science Studies and Cybernetics
The first part of this essay relates a minimal and primordial concept of agency to be found in science and technology studies to an overall ontology...
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Nature and Agency: Towards a Post-Kantian Naturalism
We outline an alternative to both scientific and liberal naturalism which attempts to reconcile Sellars’ apparently conflicting commitments to the...
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Ontogenesis, Organisation, and Organismal Agency
At first sight, the empirical study of ontogenesis and the theoretical study of organismal agency seem to have little in common. In this chapter, I...
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Introducing a four-fold way to conceptualize artificial agency
Recent developments in AI-research suggest that an AI-driven science might not be that far off. The research of for Melnikov et al. (2018) and that...
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Toward an Enactive Conception of Productive Practices: Beyond Material Agency
We examine the question of material agency as raised in material engagement theory (MET). Insofar as MET tends to highlight the causal roles played...
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Epistemic agency and the generalisation of fear
Fear generalisation is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when fear that is elicited in response to a frightening stimulus spreads to similar or...