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Abstract Heat is a central concern for many cities whose efforts for adaptation tend to reproduce inequities. While community‐led adaptation has been considered key for enhancing just outcomes, how migrants from majority world countries are in‐ or excluded from local visions and practices of adaptation has rarely been asked.
Panagiota Kotsila +4 more
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Précis of Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together
A précis of Michael E. Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Michael E. Bratman
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“‘What on Earth Was I Thinking?’ How Anticipating Plan’s End Places an Intention in Time” [PDF]
How must you think about time when you form an intention? Obviously, you must think about the time of action. Must you frame the action in any broader prospect or retrospect?
Hinchman, Edward
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Moderate Structural Exploitation
ABSTRACT We consider the apparent inability of theories of exploitation to capture common intuitions about structural exploitation. For example, it seems that consumers participate in the exploitation of sweatshop workers, but there is no direct transaction between the parties. This poses a problem for transactional accounts of exploitation.
Benjamin Ferguson +1 more
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Abstract This article recounts the development of an ongoing community‐engaged research project that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. Drawing insight and inspiration from the activism and scholarship in environmental injustice in Canada and a specific understanding of environmental injustice as slow violence, this ...
Stephanie Rutherford +2 more
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Practical Intersubjectivity and Normative Guidance: Bratman on Shared Agency
In an important new book on shared agency, Michael Bratman develops an account of the normative demand for the coordination of intentions amongst participants in shared agency. Bratman seeks to understand this form of normative guidance in terms of that
Abraham Sesshu Roth
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Fallibility for Expressivists [PDF]
Quasi-realists face the challenge of providing a plausible analysis of acknowledgments of moral fallibility. This paper devel..
Beddor, Bob
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Agency, Narrative, and Mortality [PDF]
Narrative views of agency and identity arise in opposition to reductionism in both domains. While reductionists understand both identity and agency in terms of their components, narrativists respond that life and action are both constituted by narratives,
Altshuler, Roman
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Rethinking responsibility: An Abhidharma Buddhist view
Abstract If reductionism about personal identity is true, “no one ever deserves to be punished for anything they did.” I call this the Responsible Agency Challenge. This paper addresses the question: How should we respond to this challenge? My response is inspired by the famous fifth century Buddhist Abhidharma philosopher, Vasubandhu, and the ...
Monima Chadha
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Effort and the Standard Story of Action [PDF]
In this paper, I present an alternative account of action that improves upon what has come to be known as the standard story. The standard story depicts actions as events that are caused by and made intelligible through the appropriate combinations of ...
Brent, Michael
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