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40Normative agencyIn Catriona MacKenzie Kim Atkins (ed.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, Routledge. 2008.20 page
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54Beyond dualism : a plea for an extended taxonomy of agency impairment in addictionAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 3 (2): 56-57. 2012.Pickard (2012) claims that the neurobiological or disease model of addiction hinders the recovery of people because it undermines their feeling of self-efficacy and agency. Sub- stance users are “not aided by being treated as victims of a neurobiological disease, as opposed to agents of their own recovery” (40).Although Pickard acknowledges that claims of powerlessness or loss of agency can have a functional role in the self-narratives of substance users in excusing them from blame, she primaril…Read more
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81Mental Time Travel, Dynamic Evaluation, and Moral AgencyMind 126 (501): 259-268. 2017.Mental time travel is the ability to simulate alternative pasts and futures. It is often described as the ability to project a sense of self in the service of diachronic agency. It requires not only semantic representation but affective sampling of alternative futures. If people lose this ability for affective sampling their sense of self is diminished. They have less of a self to project hence are compromised as agents. If they cannot “feel the future” they cannot imaginatively inhabit it and h…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Social Science |