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Bajo el término "Epistemología de virtudes" se dan cita un conjunto de posiciones cuyo denominador común es la sustitución de una concepción pasiva del sujeto de conocimiento por una concepción activa del mismo. Esto quiere decir, por una... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyPhilosophical ScepticismEpistemic LuckEpistemic Justification
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      Philosophy of AgencyPersonhoodConsciousnessPersonal Identity
Feministische Interventionen gegen geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt führten in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu politisch-institutionellen Maßnahmen. Dieser Entwicklung steht eine wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung gegenüber, die ihren Blick... more
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      HistoryGender StudiesQueer StudiesPhilosophy of Agency
Thinking posthumanly – from a post-Enlightenment, critical, new materialist perspective – things, including concepts, become more permeable and topological – they leak and stretch. Freed from limiting notions of agency, things behave.... more
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      Philosophy of AgencySocial SciencesMental HealthPosthumanism
In the context of the free will debate, both compatibilists and event-causal libertarians consider that the age t s mental states and events are what directly causes her de isio to a t. Ho e er, a ordi g to the disappeari g age t o je tio... more
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      PhilosophyPhilosophy of AgencyPhilosophy of ActionFree Will
Er is de laatste jaren veel aandacht voor hoe verslaving de hersenen verandert, en hoe dit self-control beinvloedt. Bij self-control ligt de nadruk vaak ‘control’, maar het ‘self’ aspect is minstens even doorslaggevend in hoe we ons... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyAddictionNeuroethicsSelf-control
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      RoboticsCognitive ScienceArtificial IntelligencePhilosophy
This reflection essay was commissioned by Mount St. Mary's University in 2001, and examines some conceptual overlap between two generically bending and historically separated texts, Shakespeare's much discussed play "The Merchant of... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice
This (preprint) chapter argues that the 'thick' constructivism to which many prominent Feminist Security Studies authors currently subscribe is incapable of providing this sub-field of International Relations with adequate philosophical... more
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      PhilosophyOntologyPhilosophy of AgencyPhilosophy of Science
The theory of agency has found applications across the social sciences as well as in management fields; there are literally thousands of papers that employ it. Unlike many popular theoretical approaches in social science, however, the... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyRedux
In my talk, I will present key ideas of my four-year research project "Bio-Agency and Natural Freedom" which aims to defeat free will scepticism on a fresh metaphysical basis informed by biology. I will proceed from the diagnosis that a... more
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      PhilosophyMetaphysicsOntologyPhilosophy of Agency
Adaptive control in the face of uncertainty involves making online predictions about events in order to plan actions to reliably achieve desirable outcomes. However, we often face situations in which the effects of our actions are... more
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      ManagementEngineeringPsychologyCognitive Psychology
https://towardsdatascience.com/data-smoothing-for-data-science-visualization-the-goldilocks-trio-part-1-867765050615 Making peace with piecewise. We've all heard that information is beautiful. But then life happens, and we find... more
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      Scientific VisualizationPhilosophy of AgencyVisualizationMachine Learning
Although European travelers to the Ottoman Empire often noted the inhabitants’ “fatalism,” historians have never seriously examined this intellectual phenomenon. Whether or not we can credit such sources, the testimony of seventeenth- and... more
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryIntellectual HistoryPhilosophy
In Holocaust fiction, narrated children act as catalysts for adult behaviour, which reinstates agency and thus responsibility in the persecuted and largely powerless adults. Since child figures help reclaim an ethical dimension for human... more
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      German LiteraturePhilosophy of AgencyEdgar HilsenrathNacht
This paper reflects on the role of computation in speculative design. It suggests that found, unexpected traces of computational processes can amplify designers’ imagination. This theme is considered through a reflection on a practical... more
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      Critical TheoryPhilosophyOntologyAesthetics
We present a synthetic theory of skilled action which proposes that cognitive processes make an important contribution to almost all skilled action, contrary to influential views that many skills are performed largely automatically.... more
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      Cognitive PsychologyPhilosophy of MindPhilosophy of AgencyPhilosophy of Action
1. On Haltung; 2. Approaching Brecht and Agency; 3. Emotions Are Not Split from Cognition; 4. Emotions Intertwining with Haltung as Basis for Acting
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      EmotionPhilosophy of AgencyEmotional intelligenceBertolt Brecht
The emerging field of Normative Multi-Agent Systems has the twin goals of providing tools for simulating human societies and coordinating activities among heterogenous autonomous software agents in an open environment. Norms are... more
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      Artificial IntelligencePhilosophy of AgencyNormativityAgent-based modeling
The objective of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of the Kantian notion of freedom (especially the problem of the third antinomy and its resolution in the critique of pure reason); its significance in the... more
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      PhilosophyMetaphysicsPhilosophy of MindEthics
*Winner of 2011 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology* "In this article, I examine the framing of personal agency in Tzotzil Maya dream narrative. Drawing on contemporary linguistic, psychodynamic, and... more
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      PsychoanalysisAnthropologyPhilosophy of AgencyLinguistic Anthropology
In an effort to carve a distinct place for social facts without lapsing into a holistic ontology, John Greenwood has sought to define social phenomena solely in terms of the attitudes held by the actor(s) in question. I argue that his... more
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      SociologyCollective BehaviorEnvironmental SociologyEconomic Sociology
This book explores the moral psychology of devotion. In the first part of the book, I provide I analysis of devotion; an examination of its motivational role; and an explanation of its connection to a distinctive form of valuing, in which... more
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      EthicsPhilosophy of AgencyMoral PsychologyTerrorism
The Library of Nonhuman Books centres around a custom-made reading-machine which uses machine-learning to abridge and ‘artificially illuminate’ physical books through a combination of algorithmic interpretation and digital palimpsest.... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyNatural Language ProcessingElectronic LiteratureAlgorithmic Art
Drawing on John Dewey’s discussion of habit in Human Nature and Conduct and Simone de Beauvoir’s discussion of the “adventurer” in The Ethics of Ambiguity, I argue that while some of our relations with things and people may very well be... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyPhenomenologySimone de BeauvoirJohn Dewey
The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates. Piotr Makowski shows that Kotarbiński–Alfred Tarski’s teacher and one of the most important philosophers of the... more
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      PhilosophyOntologyEthicsPhilosophy of Agency
It was long assumed that thinking goes on ‘in the head’: indeed, as recently as twenty years ago, many would have regarded it as absurd to examine thinking with reference to events beyond the brain. The chapters in Cognition beyond the... more
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      Cognitive PsychologyCognitive SciencePhilosophy of MindPhilosophy of Agency
"Carter's music poses struggles of opposition, for instance in timbre (Double Concerto), space (String Quartet No. 3) or pulse (String Quartet No. 5). His preference for the all-interval tetrachords, 4–Z15 [0, 1, 4, 6] and 4–Z29 [0, 1, 3,... more
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      Discourse AnalysisSemioticsEvolutionary PsychologyMusic
Much of the literature on the desirability of immortality (inspired by B. Williams) has considered whether the goods of mortal life would be exhausted in an immortal life (whether, i.e., immortality would necessarily end in tedium).... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyWell-BeingPhilosophy of DeathBernard Williams
Both the cause and the solution to environmental crisis are parsed in terms that seem intrinsically to sponsor rejection of notions of autonomy. At the level of metaphysics and of ethics, a discourse of human autonomy is generally seen... more
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      PhilosophyPolitical PhilosophyPhilosophy of AgencyEnvironmental Philosophy
Back cover text: Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social... more
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      ScreenwritingCritical TheoryCritical TheoryCritical Theory
Back cover text: Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social... more
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      ScreenwritingCritical TheoryCritical TheoryCritical Theory
Prophecy becomes interpreted as a revelation from a deity to a prophet. The nature of Martin Heidegger's work deals with Being and one major component in his book Being and Time is about the freedom that Dasein holds. From this freedom,... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyOld Testament ProphecyPhenomenologyMartin Heidegger
In this essay, I argue that a proper understanding of the Cartesian proof of the external world sheds light on some vexatious questions concerning his theory of sense perception. Three main points emerge from the discussion: a picture of... more
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      Philosophy of MindEpistemologyPhilosophy of AgencyPhilosophical Scepticism
The conviction underlying this book is that if we accept vulnerability as a dominant condition of contemporary life, then we should question the philosophical image that understands vulnerability as the negativity of a so-called full... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyFeminist TheoryFeminist PhilosophyGilles Deleuze
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      Critical TheoryBusinessEntrepreneurshipOrganizational Behavior
The action sequences in Michael Bay’s Transformers series present impossible spaces. Instead of spatially orienting the spectator, these films aim for a maximum of action, a cacophony of movement where space once was. Bay states that he... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyInformation TheoryFilm StudiesDigital Cinema
The need to tackle the discrepancy between research outputs and the execution of the findings into real practice is a crucial factor in establishing evidence-based practice in a selected government agency. There is a need to increase the... more
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      Public AdministrationPhilosophy of Agency
Panel 1 - Critique of history and history of critique with Christian Garland, Harry Cross & Matt Bolton

British Sociological Association (BSA), Durham University, 20th September 2017
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      Critical TheorySociologyEconomic SociologyPolitical Sociology
Everyday experience indicates that when we reason intelligently about how to craft a democratic process, which treats persons as "free and equal," we reason about procedures, virtues, and cultural practices in conjunction. This suggests... more
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      AnthropologyPolitical PhilosophyEthicsPhilosophy of Agency
This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (a) theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (b) one cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot... more
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      Critical TheoryBusinessEntrepreneurshipOrganizational Behavior
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      PhilosophyPhilosophy of MindPhilosophy of AgencyPhilosophy of Action
Please do not quote from proofs. For final version see New Essays on The Explanation of Action (ed. C. Sandis), Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp.358-385
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      Philosophy of MindPhilosophy of AgencyPhilosophy of ActionGreek Tragedy
How many thousand images does it take an architect to learn what Gothic is, or Baroque or Modern? How many more to differentiate between good and bad architectural solutions? This article strives to de-mystify the nature of design choice... more
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      Artificial IntelligenceAestheticsPhilosophy of AgencyArchitecture
В книге предложена логико-когнитивная формализованная теория аргументации, предназначенная для моделирования трех видов аргументации – обоснования, убеждения и практической аргументации. Аргументация – это интеллектуальная познавательная... more
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      Cognitive SciencePhilosophy of AgencyLogicDefeasible Reasoning (Computer Science)
According to contemporary hierarchical views of the self and agency, the distinctive feature of human agency is that we have the ability to distance ourselves from our immediate desires (Frankfurt) and from those socially prescribed norms... more
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      Philosophy of AgencyKierkegaardIrony
Discusses modes of moral agency of historical figures such as Hannibal and Julian of Norwich,  and tries to locate Hamlet as a moral agent, looking at work by Michael Bristol, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Richard Strier, and Peter Holbrook.
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      Philosophy of AgencyHamlet
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      Critical TheoryBusinessEntrepreneurshipOrganizational Behavior
How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds work - how we learn about the world and how we remember people and... more
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      Cognitive SciencePhilosophy of AgencyCognitionEmbodied Cognition
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