The Ontology of Intentional Agency in Light of Neurobiological Determinism: Philosophy Meets Folk Psychology [PDF]
, 2017 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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Post-Modernism, Agency, and Democracy
Philosophies, 2018 This essay presents a general summary of post-modern philosophy’s conception of agency. It argues that while post-modern philosophers offer formidable intellectual tools for criticizing contemporary restrictions on agency, their conception falters ...
Matthew McManus
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The Contemporary Significance of Marxist Ecological Philosophy [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesMarxist ecological philosophy carries profound implications and serves as the guiding principle for constructing an ecologically advanced society. The essence and fundamental principle of Marxist philosophy is to demand individuals to fully utilize their
Nguyen Phuoc Tai, Tran Mong Nghi
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Collective Action, Constituent Power, and Democracy: On Representation in Lindahl’s Philosophy of Law [PDF]
, 2019 This contribution develops two objections to Hans Lindahl’s legal philosophy, as exhibited in his Authority and the Globalization of Inclusion and Exclusion.
Fossen, Thomas
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Scratching the structure of moral agency: insights from philosophy applied to neuroscience
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 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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Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 The musha mukadzi (Shona) or umuzi ngumama (Ndebele) is an African gendered philosophy that means women make up the home. This philosophy has been researched in African traditional religions (ATRs) and is interrogated from interdisciplinary angles in ...
Tracey Chirara, Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale
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Abduction at the interface of Logic and Philosophy of Science
Theoria, 2009 Despite their growing separation over the years, logic and philosophy of science should still be allies pursuing an agenda of rational agency ranging from specific mechanisms like abduction to the broader study of reasoning, belief revision, learning ...
Johan Van Benthem
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Agentivité ou autonomie ? Pour une théorie critique de la vulnérabilité
Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2021 Academic studies on vulnerability have first focused on the absence of “vulnerability” in contemporary political theory. Then, they focused on its conceptual design and normative implications.
Marie Garrau
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Trust, Agency and Discrimination
Rivista di Estetica, 2017 This paper attempts to clarify the relations between trust, agency and latent forms of discrimination. Its main argument is in social philosophy, and it articulates considerations from moral psychology and the philosophy of language.
Jacopo Domenicucci
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DUAL-PROCESS APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PERCEPTION [PDF]
Filozofia i Nauka, 2022 Thanks to advances in machine learning in recent years the ability of AI agents to act independently of human oversight,respond to their environment, and interact with other machines has significantly increased, and is one step closer to human-like ...
Marcin Rabiza
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