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Rationality and moral agency - a study of Xunzi's philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
"Rationality" is generally regarded as a concept exclusive to Western philosophy. In this paper I intend to show that even if in Chinese philosophy there is not a term equivalent to ???rationality???
Jiang, Xinyan
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Human Agency in Law and Jurisprudence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This dissertation explores the way in which different conceptions of human agency have helped to shape the course of jurisprudential thought. The overarching aim is to bring to the surface the deeper commitments of Hartian positivism in its various ...
Murphy, Jessica
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Dialogue and revolution: fostering legitimate stakeholder agency in natural resource governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis explores how people exert their agency in policy processes that pertain to natural resource governance, and how they construct the required sense of legitimacy for such actions.
Larsen, Rasmus Klocker, Larsen, R.K.
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Going around in Circles: Interrogating Librarians’ Spheres of Concern, Influence, and Control

open access: yesIn the Library with the Lead Pipe
The practice placing one’s anxieties into circles of concern, influence, and control can be found in philosophy, psychology, and self-help literature. It is a means of cultivating agency and preventing needless rumination.
Jordan Moore
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Agency and Normativity: A Study in the Philosophy of Peirce and Dewey

open access: yes, 2014
The central role played by normativity in pragmatism has become in the past years a center of renewed interest from different sides. Not only the pragmatist scholarship has recently produced new studies in ethics (LaFollette 2000; Pappas 2008; de Waal and Skowronki 2012; Frega 2012), but also thinkers trained in the analytic tradition came to endorse ...
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