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296Agency, consciousness, and executive controlPhilosophia 37 (1): 21-30. 2009.On the Causal Theory of Action (CTA), internal proper parts of an agent such as desires and intentions are causally responsible for actions. CTA has increasingly come under attack for its alleged failure to account for agency. A recent version of this criticism due to François Schroeter proposes that CTA cannot provide an adequate account of either the executive control or the autonomous control involved in full-fledged agency. Schroeter offers as an alternative a revised understanding of the pr…Read more
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123Basic causal deviance, action repertoires, and reliabilityPhilosophical Issues 22 (1): 1-19. 2012.
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70Interpersonal Interactions and the Bounds of AgencyDialectica 61 (2): 219-234. 2007.According to the Causal Theory of Action, actions are causally produced events and causal transitivity seems to apply to all such events. However, strong intuitions support the idea that actions cannot be transitively caused. This is a tension that has plagued this theory’s effort to account for action. In particular, it has fueled a serious objection suggesting that this theory of action seriously distorts the attribution of agency when two agents interact with each other. Based on Donald David…Read more
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44Action Schemes: Questions and SuggestionsPhilosophy and Technology 24 (1): 83-88. 2011.Action Schemes: Questions and Suggestions Content Type Journal Article Pages 83-88 DOI 10.1007/s13347-010-0007-2 Authors Evan Selinger, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY USA Jesús Aguilar, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY USA Kyle Powys Whyte, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA Journal Philosophy & Technology Online ISSN 2210-5441 Print ISSN 2210-5433 Journal Volume Volume 24…Read more
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37New waves in philosophy of action (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2011.Andrei A. Buckareff is Assistant Professor at Marist College, USA --
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30The Standard Story of Action and the Problem of Agential GuidanceCritica 52 (155): 3-25. 2020.The problem of agential guidance consists in explaining the possibility of guiding an action in purely reductive causal terms. After examining Harry Frankfurt’s articulation of this problem, the standard systemic reductive causal answer is explored and found wanting. Two general explanatory challenges are singled out as decisive in assessing the viability of a causal answer to the problem of agential guidance: first, the correct identification of the actual sources of action guidance in the form…Read more
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21How We Act: Causes, Reasons, and Intentions (review)Philosophical Review 114 (4): 548-550. 2005.
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7Philosophy and Latin American literatureIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Metaphysics and Epistemology Ethics and Politics Aesthetic Worldviews References Further Reading.
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1Metaphilosophical Internalism And The Possibility Of A Distinctive Latin American PhilosophyIn George Yancy (ed.), Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge, State University of New York Press. pp. 103-117. 2012.
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Agency and causationIn Luca Ferrero (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency, Routledge. pp. 27-36. 2022.In this chapter, we examine some foundational issues at the intersection of the metaphysics of agency and the metaphysics of causation. We explore three broad issues concerning the metaphysics of causation and intentional agency. We first consider the best way to think about the relationship between exercising agency and causation. Specifically, is intentional agency best identified with a causal process or should we take intentional agency to be either the causal initiation of some outcome or t…Read more
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Philosophy and literatureIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.