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10 Αυγ 2015 · In very general terms, an agent is a being with the capacity to act, and ‘agency’ denotes the exercise or manifestation of this capacity. The philosophy of action provides us with a standard conception and a standard theory of action.
- Shared Agency
1. The traditional ontological problem and the Intention...
- Practical Reason and The Structure of Actions
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- Cognitive Science
5.1 Philosophical Applications. Much philosophical research...
- Theories of Free Will
Incompatibilists hold that free will and determinism are...
- Collective Intentionality
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- Events
Although not undisputed, some standard differences between...
- Embodied Cognition
In other words, phenomenological analysis of our conscious...
- Autonomy: Personal
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- Shared Agency
Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment. It is independent of the moral dimension, which is called moral agency. In sociology, an agent is an individual engaging with the social structure. Notably, though, the primacy of social structure vs. individual capacity with regard to persons' actions is debated within sociology.
The concept of agency has become a source of increasing strain and confu-sion in social thought. Variants of action theory, normative theory, and political-institutional analysis have defended, attacked, buried, and resus-citated the concept in often contradictory and overlapping ways. At the
It is noted that the semantic development of ‘agency’ has been considerably shaped by association with ‘agent’, which is defined, most generally, as a “person who or thing which acts upon someone or something; one who or that which exerts power; the doer of an action”.
1 Απρ 2014 · This essay attempts to answer three questions about Aristotle’s account of agency: (1) What is an action? (2) Under what conditions is an action voluntary or intentional? (3) What is the relation between an agent and an action when he or she acts voluntarily?
1 Ιαν 2014 · Beyond this, the notion of agency also has an influential place in humanist and existential philosophy, with expression in psychology, where reference to agency denotes something like a reference to freedom as a defining condition of being human.
the concept of agency is introduced by philosophers, such as agency as the capacity to ‘make things happen,’ ‘make a di$erence,’ or ‘cause some kind of change.’ The trouble is that these characterizations can be used in ways that appear too broad. These expressions might refer,
