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Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy
2013Acknowledgments 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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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 ...openaire +1 more source
Agency, Thought, and Language: Analytic Philosophy Goes to School
Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2011I 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 Early Confucian Philosophy of Agency
Henrique Schneider argues that understanding the three Early Confucian thinkers—Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi—as virtue-ethicists, political philosophers, or social conservatives proves too narrow. Championing a broader and more philosophical reading, The Early Confucian Philosophy of Agency: Virtuous Conduct sheds new light on a well-established topic.openaire +1 more source
Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing. The Philosophy of Law meets the Philosophy of Technology
2011248 p.
Hildebrandt, M., Rouvroy, A.
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Moral agency, autonomy, and heteronomy in early Confucian philosophy
Philosophy Compass, 2017Abstract This 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 ...
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The Algorithmic Turn: Rethinking Agency in 21st-Century Philosophy
The 21st century has witnessed a profound transformation driven by the pervasive integration of algorithms into virtually every aspect of human life. This phenomenon, often termed the "algorithmic turn," necessitates a critical re-evaluation of fundamental philosophical concepts, none more so than that of agency.Revista, Zen, PHILOSOPHY, 10
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Causality and Agency in the Philosophy of Thomas Reid
1989I 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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Hegel’s Philosophy of History as the Metaphysics of Agency
2017Rather 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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