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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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Reactive agency and technology
Is there room for genuine human agency in a world populated by almost incessant technological distraction and influence? It often feels as though our...
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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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How aging shapes our sense of agency
The sense of agency refers to the feeling of controlling one’s actions and their effects on the external environment. Here, we tested how the...
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Mobility, Agency, Kinship Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood
This volume offers new perspectives on the ways in which migrants use storytelling practices and kinship formations in order to navigate and modify...
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A metaphysical account of agency for technology governance
The way in which agency is conceptualised has implications for understanding human–machine interactions and the governance of technology, especially...
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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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Epistemic agency as a critical mediator of physics learning
Epistemic agency is a conceptual tool for creating effective teaching methods that involve students taking accountability for their own learning and...
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Agency Navigation
The pervious chapter has examined agency construction at clausal level. This chapter is endeavored to explore agency navigation at discoursal level,...
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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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Agency Construction
This chapter is dedicated to answer the first research question about how the English-majors construct different levels of agency in individual...
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Social Agency for Artifacts: Chatbots and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Ethically significant consequences of artificially intelligent artifacts will stem from their effects on existing social relations. Artifacts will...
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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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Epistemic agency: a link between assessment, knowledge and society
In this conceptual article, we discuss the idea of students’ epistemic agency as an overlooked link between assessment, knowledge and society. We...
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Understanding the Relation Between Agency and Communion and Victim Impact Statements
Victim impact statements (VIS) have been widely introduced across different jurisdictions. Although early research examined the impact of VIS on...
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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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Uncovering maker educators’ heterogenous professional visions of agency within goal setting interactions
Agency is a core pedagogical goal of the maker education movement. However, there are still many unknowns about how agency is identified in maker...
