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The Natural Philosophy of Agency

Philosophy Compass, 2007
Abstract A review of several theories and brain‐imaging experiments shows that there is no consensus about how to define the sense of agency. In some cases the sense of agency is construed in terms of bodily movement or motor control, in others it is linked to the intentional aspect of action.
Shaun Gallagher
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Philosophy of Action and Agency

Abstract This chapter challenges the standard theory of action in contemporary Anglophone philosophy, which views agency as a distinctively human capacity defined by conditions like intentionality and rationality. It proposes an alternative, relational, collective, and ecological approach to agency that includes nonhuman entities and ...
Valmisa Mercedes
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Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy

2013
Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction Chapter 1 Agency in Samkhya and Yoga - Edwin F. Bryant Chapter 2 Free Persons, Empty Selves - Karin Meyers Chapter 3 Free Will and Volunteerism in Jainism - Christopher Key Chapple Chapter 4 Paninian Grammarians on Agency and Independence - George Cardona Chapter 5 Nyaya's Self as Agent and Knower - Matthew R ...
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Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing. The Philosophy of Law meets the Philosophy of Technology [PDF]

, 2011
248 p.
Hildebrandt, M., Rouvroy, A.
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Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

Monist, The, 2010
Menachem Fisch
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Agency, ethics and politics in Aurel Kolnai’s philosophy

Studies in East European Thought, 2008
Tamás Demeter, Demeter Tamás
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Agency in Greco-Roman philosophy

The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2020
Agency, the theme of my life’s work, consists of efficacy, future-minded optimism, and imagination. I here attempt to trace the history of agency in Western thought over the Greco-Roman epoch.
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Political Philosophy and the Primacy of Agency

2020
In his political philosophy, Peter Winch was pursuing two themes, one of which is more explicit and more conventional than the other. His first theme was the critique of classical social contract theory. His second theme is best characterised as the primacy of agency over spectatorship.
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Mentorship in Method: Philosophy and Experienced Agency

Hypatia, 2014
Against the background of the exclusion of many feminist methodologies from mainstream philosophy, and in light of the methodological challenges of providing accounts of experience responsive to the lives of agents, in this paper I return to early feminist philosophers of emotion to highlight how they anticipate and respond to methodological criticisms.
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Advertising Agency Philosophies and Employee Risk Taking

Journal of Advertising, 2001
On the basis of an exploratory survey of executives from a cross-section of U.S. advertising agencies, this article examines the relationship between agency creative philosophies and agent creative...
Douglas West, John Ford
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