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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 ...
Matthew R. Dasti, Edwin Bryant
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Hegel’s Philosophy of History as the Metaphysics of Agency

2017
Rather than understanding history as a process guided by an entity (Geist) that is aiming at the goal of coming to a full self-consciousness, this chapter argues that Hegel’s philosophy should be understood against the background of his Aristotelian- and Kantian-inspired metaphysics.
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Causality and Agency in the Philosophy of Thomas Reid

1989
I shall be concerned here with two doctrines which are essential to Reid’s account of agency and of causation. The first, expounded at some length in AP I, v, is that, so far as we can tell, only beings with will and understanding can exercise active power.
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Rational and Social Agency

2014
1. Introduction 2. Richard Holton "Intention as a Model of Belief" 3. Alfred Mele "The Single Phenomenon View and Experimental Philosophy" 4. Kieran Setiya "Intention, Plans, and Ethical Rationalism" 5. J. David Velleman "What Good is a Will?" 6. R. Jay Wallace "Reasons, Policies, and the Real Self: Bratman on Identification" 7.
Manuel Vargas, Gideon Yaffe
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EVALUATING AGENCY: A FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Metaphilosophy, 2011
Abstract:Many of the things we do in social and political philosophy, whether normative or critical, presuppose some understanding and evaluation of agency. To have a clear idea of our normative or critical enterprise, the underlying account of agency needs spelling out. This article begins with a descriptive account: human agency consists in power (or
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Liminal Agencies: Literature as Moral Philosophy

2006
The ‘quarrel’ between philosophy and poetry over truth was already an ‘ancient enmity’ in Plato’s time (Plato, Republic, line 607b). In considering the idea of Justice, Plato’s Socrates insists that literature has no power to ‘teach the truth adequately to others’, nor ‘to educate men and make them better’ (Plato, Republic, line 599d).
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Moral agency, autonomy, and heteronomy in early Confucian philosophy

Philosophy Compass, 2017
AbstractThis paper discusses Confucian notions of moral autonomy and moral agency that do not follow strict and ideal notions of autonomy that one can find in many Western theories of moral philosophy. In Kantian deontology, for example, one's autonomy, specifically one's rational will to follow universal moral rules, is a necessary condition of moral ...
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Agency, Thought, and Language: Analytic Philosophy Goes to School

Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2011
I take as my starting point recent concerns from within educational psychology about the need to treat the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of empirical research in the field more seriously, specifically in the context of work on the self, mind and agency. Developing this theme, I find such conceptual support in the writings of P. F. Strawson
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The Problem of Agency and the Problem of Accountability in Kant's Moral Philosophy

European Journal of Philosophy, 2011
Abstract: This paper discusses the function and scope of incompatibilist or transcendental freedom in Kant's moral philosophy. The prevailing view among scholars, most notably Allison, is that the function of transcendental freedom is to enable us to articulate a first‐person conception of ourselves as rational agents involved in ...
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PHILOSOPHIES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY IN REGULATING HUMAN EXPOSURE TO CARCINOGENS*

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1977
Some topics discussed are as follows: cost to society of regulatory action taken by the agency; importance of making a reasonable assessment of hazards before taking regulatory action; problems of the evidence of weak carcinogenicity; estimates of levels of exposure; and tolerances for residues of pesticides on food crops. (HLW)
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