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195Learning to ActSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 3 (1): 11-35. 2016.In this paper I argue that to understand minded agency – the capacity we typically find instantiated in instances of human behaviour that could sensibly be questioned by asking “What did you do?” – one needs to understand childhood, i.e. the trajectory of learning to act. I discuss two different types of trajectory, both of which seem to take place during childhood and both of which might be considered crucial to learning to act: a growth of bodily control (GBC) and a growth in taking responsibi…Read more
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114True to ourselvesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (1). 1998.The paper addresses the problem of authenticity from a point of view that diverges from the more usual social, political, or moral approaches, by focusing very explicitly on the internal psychological make-up of human agents in an attempt to identify the conditions that would enable us to use the colloquial phrase 'being true to ourselves' in a way that is philosophically tenable. First, it is argued that the most important and problematic condition is the requirement that agents can be the sour…Read more
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Albury Castell, Donald Borchert and Arthur Zucker, eds., An Introduction to Modern Philosophy. Examining the Human Condition, 6th ed (review)Philosophy in Review 14 (5): 315-317. 1994.
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3Personal Identity ManagementIn Catriona Mackenzie & Kim Atkins (eds.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, Routledge. 2008.
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Morton White, The Question of Free Will: A Holistic View (review)Philosophy in Review 15 70-72. 1995.
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32From Daily Life to PhilosophyMetaphilosophy 35 (4): 517-535. 2004.It is argued that the little everyday things of life often provide excellent entries into the intellectual problems of academic philosophy. This is illustrated with an analysis of four small stories taken from daily life in which people are in agony because they do not know what to do. It is argued that the crucial question in these stories is a philosophical question; not a closed request for empirical or formal information, but an open question about how best to conceive of human experience.
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14Anticipating reasons of one's ownIn Maureen Sie, Marc Slors & Bert van den Brink (eds.), Reasons of One's Own, Ashgate. pp. 87--105. 2004.
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42Moral competence in action: IntroductionPhilosophical Explorations 3 (3). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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66Competences: An introduction to educational and developmental perspectives on minded agencyPhilosophical Explorations 8 (3). 2005.This Article does not have an abstract
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17Actorschap en zelfstandigheidTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (4). 1998.This is a review article of the debate about the role of the hierarchical conceptionof personal autonomy in an analysis of agency. Three well-known problems are described:the infinite regress, the 'ab initio' problem, and the 'incompleteness' problem. It is suggested that solving the last problem would resolve the former two. Three strategies to solve the last problem are discussed and found unsatisfactory: (1) stressing the independent role of value judgements; (2) stressing the supreme value o…Read more
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108Self-Knowledge and Self-LoveEthical Theory and Moral Practice 18 (2): 309-321. 2015.In this paper I argue for the claim that self - love is a precondition for self -knowledge. This claim is relevant to the contemporary philosophical debate on self -knowledge, but mainly because it draws attention to the role of claims of self -knowledge in the larger context of our ordinary practice of rationalizing and appropriating our actions. In this practice it is crucial for persons to open-mindedly investigate the limits of their own responsible agency, an investigation that requires a w…Read more
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34Making X Happen: Prolepsis and the Problem of Mental DeterminationIn J. A. M. Bransen & S. E. Cuypers (eds.), Human Action, Deliberation and Causation, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 131--153. 1998.
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3Postmoderne benadering van de zin van de wijsgerige reflectie.
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58Identification and the Idea of an Alternative of OneselfEuropean Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 1-16. 1996.
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Afhankelijkheid zonder dominantie (review)Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 3. 2004.
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53The importance of how we see ourselves: Self-identity and responsible agency * by Marina OshanaAnalysis 72 (1): 198-200. 2012.
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499Becoming Oneself through Failure and ResolutionIn Käthe Schneider (ed.), Becoming Oneself: Dimensions of “Bildung” and the facilitation of personality development, Springer Vs-‐verlag. pp. 5-28. 2012.The aim of this chapter is to show how we can account for a most peculiar feature of human life: i.e. the need to address the real possibility of failing to be ourselves.
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Philosophy of Mind |
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Philosophy of Social Science |