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Zahra khazaei* Received: 01/07/2019 | Accepted: 11/09/2019 In the philosophy of action, agency manifests the capacity of the agent to act. An agent is one who acts voluntarily, consciously and intentionally.
zahra khazaei
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Entanglement, Agency and Phenomena. Quantum Physics and Philosophy after Schelling
The topic of this essay concerns the interest that the conception of nature in Schelling has aroused in the philosophical culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Germana Pareti
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The philosophy of episodic memory and moral agency
Presentation for the dossier.
Eduardo Vicentini de Medeiros
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Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman
Olle Blomberg
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From the immune self to moral agency. Comments [PDF]
Author comments on the changes in the philosophy of immunology that have occurred since the publication of his book The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor?, as well as on the dangers, misunderstandings and expectations in this area. Finally, he presents his
Alfred I. Tauber
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Philosophy for Education: Towards Human Agency [PDF]
This paper considers the contribution of philosophy to education. First, a case is made that the fundamental goal of education is to cultivate human agency in the sense of being able to enact one’s freedom (as opposed to conditioned and habituated patterns of thinking, perception, and action) grounded in personal knowledge and ethics.
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The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice [PDF]
Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA) is a freedom-centered and agency-oriented framework to the assessment of individual and social states. Indeed, it regards agency as having intrinsic, instrumental, and constructive importance.
Pablo Garcés
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Reality and the Method of Explaining Human Action in the Framework of the Islamic Philosophy A Fundamental Theory in the Humanities [PDF]
This article reviews the Reality and the Method of Explaining Human Action in the Framework of the Islamic Philosophy: A Fundamental Theory in the Humanities book. To reach the Islamic civilization, the necessity for producing Islamic social science and
Seyed Saeed Zahed
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Oedipus Philosophus: A Thought Experiment
This article has a four-fold purpose: (I) to point out the interface and overlap of Classics and Philosophy; (ii) to encourage the take-up of A level Philosophy as a fitting companion for Classics courses, linguistic and non-linguistic; (iii) to ...
Jerome Moran
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Rethinking Corporate Agency in Business, Philosophy and Law [PDF]
While researchers in business ethics, moral philosophy and jurisprudence have advanced the study of corporate agency, there have been very few attempts to bring together insights from these and other disciplines in the pages of the Journal of Business Ethics.
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