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2022
This chapter draws attention to ideas of dependency and passivity and the major role that these have played in framing old age and later life. These ideas reflect the marginalised position of older people in society but also the fact that ageing is a corporeal experience of decline and loss.
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This chapter draws attention to ideas of dependency and passivity and the major role that these have played in framing old age and later life. These ideas reflect the marginalised position of older people in society but also the fact that ageing is a corporeal experience of decline and loss.
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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).
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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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2006
It has become increasingly common for agencies to be deployed in nation states to fulfil certain governmental functions. The same phenomenon has occurred in the EU, especially since the 1990s. This chapter explores the role played by agencies in the EU.
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It has become increasingly common for agencies to be deployed in nation states to fulfil certain governmental functions. The same phenomenon has occurred in the EU, especially since the 1990s. This chapter explores the role played by agencies in the EU.
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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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Public Agencies and Private Agencies
American Political Science Review, 1924Is there any fundamental distinction between so-called “public” and “private” agencies, officers, institutions, corporations, associations, persons—legal entities and quasi-entities of all sorts? It is the theory of the courts that such a distinction exists, but their attempts through a maze of decisions logically to establish a principle of ...
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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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WHERE IS THE FREE AGENCY IN PERSONAL AGENCY?
The Philosophical Quarterly, 2011According to Jonathan Lowe's ‘Personal Agency’, free actions begin with a volition or act of will, which is itself a freely performed action. However, Lowe's explanation of why volitions are free actions is viciously circular: he argues that volitions qualify as free actions because they are rationally explicable, but claims that an action can only be ...
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Planning Agency, Autonomous Agency
2005Abstract Are there forms of psychological functioning that can be characterized without seeing the agent herself as playing an irreducible role and that are plausible candidates for sufficient conditions for agential governance? Are certain forms of functioning necessary for self-governance?
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Architectural Research Quarterly, 2009
‘Agency’ is a beguiling word. It has the immediacy of a call-to-arms and the remoteness and anonymity of a bureaucratic function. Agency, as action in the world, underpins revolutionary social change, and the representation of someone else's interests – usually at a distance – in a governmental or business context. It is implicated in both the agitprop
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‘Agency’ is a beguiling word. It has the immediacy of a call-to-arms and the remoteness and anonymity of a bureaucratic function. Agency, as action in the world, underpins revolutionary social change, and the representation of someone else's interests – usually at a distance – in a governmental or business context. It is implicated in both the agitprop
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