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International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2017
Let us suppose that we accept that humans can be correctly characterized as agents (and hence held responsible for their actions). Let us further presume that this capacity contrasts with most non-human animals. Thus, since agency is what uniquely constitutes what it is to be human, it must be of supreme importance.
Raymond Paternoster, Ronet Bachman
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Let us suppose that we accept that humans can be correctly characterized as agents (and hence held responsible for their actions). Let us further presume that this capacity contrasts with most non-human animals. Thus, since agency is what uniquely constitutes what it is to be human, it must be of supreme importance.
Raymond Paternoster, Ronet Bachman
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2023
Human agency encompasses intentionality, forethought, ownership, purpose, and self-efficacy. This chapter explores these elements at various stages of Dr. Taisha Johnson's life. Dr. Johnson shares her humble beginnings. Dr. Johnson's journey was profoundly shaped by an absentee father, and her supportive mother, Barbara Blackwell.
Jordan P. Everall, Ilona M. Otto
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Human agency encompasses intentionality, forethought, ownership, purpose, and self-efficacy. This chapter explores these elements at various stages of Dr. Taisha Johnson's life. Dr. Johnson shares her humble beginnings. Dr. Johnson's journey was profoundly shaped by an absentee father, and her supportive mother, Barbara Blackwell.
Jordan P. Everall, Ilona M. Otto
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Human agency and human geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1981This commentary discusses the prospectus for a humanistic geography provided by the contributors to D. Ley, M. Samuels (eds) Humanistic geography: prospects and problems. The resurgence of a humanist tradition in geography has drawn its impetus in part from la giographie humaine of Vidal de la Blache, and an examination of the connections between the ...
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Balancing human agency and object agency
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2012Advances in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT) have made it possible for everyday objects to attain agency. However, it is unclear how laypersons perceive the increasingly active artifacts. These perceptions are likely to foreground their future responses to IoT objects as they become relevant actors in the physical world and begin to influence ...
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2021
This chapter continues with an exegesis of the latter two volumes of the Three Body trilogy, The Dark Forest and Death’s End. It contextualizes the story in terms of Hamlet’s “to be or not to be,” an idea that conceptually bookends the overall trilogy, also exploring the role of human agency in Earth’s attempts to defend itself from invasion, which ...
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This chapter continues with an exegesis of the latter two volumes of the Three Body trilogy, The Dark Forest and Death’s End. It contextualizes the story in terms of Hamlet’s “to be or not to be,” an idea that conceptually bookends the overall trilogy, also exploring the role of human agency in Earth’s attempts to defend itself from invasion, which ...
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2011
This chapter argues that human agency is free agency. It is freedom, or dominium over one's own actions, which makes a human being different from all other animals; and it is the foundation of the world of the moral, the juridical, and the political, which are all continuous with one another ...
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This chapter argues that human agency is free agency. It is freedom, or dominium over one's own actions, which makes a human being different from all other animals; and it is the foundation of the world of the moral, the juridical, and the political, which are all continuous with one another ...
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Two Problems about Human Agency
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), 2001Abstract This chapter distinguishes agential authority from subjective normative authority, argues that a theory of strong forms of human agency needs to provide a coordinated treatment of both, and explains how an appeal to higher-order self-governing policies aims to do this.
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