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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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Game theory and partner representation in joint action: toward a computational theory of joint agency
The sense of agency – the subjective feeling of being in control of our own actions – is one central aspect of the phenomenology of action....
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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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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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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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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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Hegelian Reflections on Agency, Alienation, and Work: Toward an Expressivist Theory of the Firm
Hegel’s practical philosophy has important insights for understanding the ethical role of the firm in modern society. From a broadly Hegelian...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ought and agency
A thorny question surrounding the meaning of ought concerns a felt distinction between deontic uses of ought that seem to evaluate a state of affairs...