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Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman
This anthology consists of ten essays that engage with various aspects of Michael Bratman’s philosophy of action, framed by a brief introduction by the editors and a substantive response to the essays by Bratman.
Olle Blomberg
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Scratching the structure of moral agency: insights from philosophy applied to neuroscience [PDF]
This paper explores the intersection between neuroscience and philosophy, particularly in the areas of moral philosophy and philosophy of mind. While traditional philosophical questions, such as those relating to free will and moral motivation, have been
Francisco Javier Castro-Toledo+4 more
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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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An introduction to the philosophy of agency [PDF]
Luca Ferrero
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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.
Samuel Mansell+3 more
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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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The Ontology of Intentional Agency in Light of Neurobiological Determinism: Philosophy Meets Folk Psychology [PDF]
The moot point of the Western philosophical rhetoric about free will consists in examining whether the claim of authorship to intentional, deliberative actions fits into or is undermined by a one-way causal framework of determinism.
A Mele+27 more
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New Perspectives on Agency in Early Modern Philosophy [PDF]
ABSTRACTThis introductory article outlines the themes and aims of this special issue, which offers new perspectives on early modern debates about agency in two ways: First, it recovers writings on ...
Ruth Boeker
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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.
Heesoon Bai
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PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL AGENCY IN THE WRITINGS OF FREDERICK II OF PRUSSIA [PDF]
AbstractFrederick II's writings have conventionally been viewed either as political tools or as means of public self-fashioning – part of his campaign to raise the status of Prussia from middling principality to great power. This article, by contrast, argues that Frederick's works must also be taken seriously on their own terms, and interpreted against
Avi Lifschitz
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