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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 and Subjectivity in Social Sustainability
This chapter offers a theoretically informed contribution to how agency and subjectivity are key to social sustainability. Social sustainability is...
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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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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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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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The Ethics of the Extended Mind: Mental Privacy, Manipulation and Agency
According to proponents of the extended mind, bio-external resources, such as a notebook or a smartphone, are candidate parts of the cognitive and...
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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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Habitually breaking habits: Agency, awareness, and decision-making in musical improvisation
In this paper, I explore the question of agency in spontaneous action via a phenomenology of musical improvisation, drawing on fieldwork conducted...
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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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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...
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Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience
Ecological accounts of responsible agency claim that moral feedback is essential to the reasons-responsiveness of agents. In this paper, we discuss...
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Is a Cognitive Revolution in Theoretical Biology Underway?
The foundations of biology have been a topic of debate for the past few decades. The traditional perspective of the Modern Synthesis, which portrays...
