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Econometrica, 1986
We extend the principal-agent framework with risk-neutral principals to situations in which several principals simultaneously and independently attempt to influence a common agent. We show that implementation is, in the aggregate, always efficient (cost-minimizing), and that noncooperative behavior induces an efficient (potentially second-best) action ...
Bernheim, B Douglas, Whinston, Michael D
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We extend the principal-agent framework with risk-neutral principals to situations in which several principals simultaneously and independently attempt to influence a common agent. We show that implementation is, in the aggregate, always efficient (cost-minimizing), and that noncooperative behavior induces an efficient (potentially second-best) action ...
Bernheim, B Douglas, Whinston, Michael D
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The Journal of General Psychology
Agency is action aimed at goals selected by an agent. A deterministic world view leaves scant room for agency. To reconcile the arguments, we represent action as nested control systems, ranging from clearly deterministic to clearly volitional. Negative feedback minimizes deviations from setpoints (goals).
Peter R. Killeen +2 more
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Agency is action aimed at goals selected by an agent. A deterministic world view leaves scant room for agency. To reconcile the arguments, we represent action as nested control systems, ranging from clearly deterministic to clearly volitional. Negative feedback minimizes deviations from setpoints (goals).
Peter R. Killeen +2 more
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2004
The definitive version is available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com ; Michael Bratman is rightly celebrated for his planning theory of intention. On this theory, intentions are characterized by the role they play as elements in larger plans, the dual purpose of which is to extend the influence of our deliberation into the future, and to enable the ...
Cullity, G., Gerrans, P.
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The definitive version is available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com ; Michael Bratman is rightly celebrated for his planning theory of intention. On this theory, intentions are characterized by the role they play as elements in larger plans, the dual purpose of which is to extend the influence of our deliberation into the future, and to enable the ...
Cullity, G., Gerrans, P.
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International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems, 2013
Distributed Agency is the name of a conceptual framework for describing complex adaptive systems that this paper develops. To understand the complexity of the world in a holistic fashion, the field of Modeling and Simulation is currently lacking a common terminology in which different bodies of knowledge can communicate with each other in a general ...
Eugenio Dante Suarez +1 more
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Distributed Agency is the name of a conceptual framework for describing complex adaptive systems that this paper develops. To understand the complexity of the world in a holistic fashion, the field of Modeling and Simulation is currently lacking a common terminology in which different bodies of knowledge can communicate with each other in a general ...
Eugenio Dante Suarez +1 more
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Philosophy Compass, 2008
Abstract This paper provides an overview of recent discussions of the phenomenology of agency. By ‘the phenomenology of agency’ I mean those phenomenal states that are associated with first‐person agency. I call such states ‘agentive experiences’.
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Abstract This paper provides an overview of recent discussions of the phenomenology of agency. By ‘the phenomenology of agency’ I mean those phenomenal states that are associated with first‐person agency. I call such states ‘agentive experiences’.
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Nursing Standard, 2001
NURSING AGENCIES should be 'kitemarked' to show whether they comply with NHS guidance on overseas recruitment, according to a three-point plan published by the Liberal Democrats last week.
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NURSING AGENCIES should be 'kitemarked' to show whether they comply with NHS guidance on overseas recruitment, according to a three-point plan published by the Liberal Democrats last week.
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The British Journal of Sociology, 2002
Book Reviewed:Clarissa Hayward 2000 De‐Facing ...
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Book Reviewed:Clarissa Hayward 2000 De‐Facing ...
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From Individual Agency to Co-agency
2014Despite a long tradition in philosophy and theology, later on in sociology, and nowadays visible in (social) psychology and neuroscience, we are still far from operating with a unitary framework for what agency is. This chapter will open with a discussion of four classic yet largely fruitless debates on this topic: (a) agency between complete freedom ...
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Agency Incompatibilism and Divine Agency
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2015In this paper, I consider whether an argument for compatibilism about free will and determinism might be developed from the thought that God’s agency seems consistent with the rational determination of at least some divine actions by the True and the Good.
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