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...Nomy Arpaly Korsgaard Christine , The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2008 . x + 345 pp . © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Richard Bett, ed. The Cambridge...

... and Berys Gaut, 29 -52. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wilson, George. 1989 . The Intentionality of Human Action. Stanford: Stanford University Press. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 3 (July 2004) Shared Agency and Contralateral Commitments...

...Jennifer Whiting Raymond Martin, Self-Concern: An Experiential Approach to What Matters in Survival. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 169. Carol Rovane, The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. 260...

... Studies 121 : 263 -75. Korsgaard, Christine. 1996 . The Sources of Normativity . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ____. 2002. “Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity.” The Locke Lectures given at Oxford University, May and June 2002, www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~korsgaar...

...Jason D’Cruz [email protected] Doris John M. , Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . 356 pp. © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 Character Trouble (2022) needed to be written. Doris’s...

...Raphael Woolf [email protected] Moore Christopher , The Virtue of Agency: Sōphrosunē and Self-Constitution in Classical Greece . New York : Oxford University Press , 2023 . xiv + 394 pp. © 2025 by Cornell University 2025 In this erudite and stimulating book...

... argument than Kohl (or most other scholars) provides. The general tendency of Kant scholarship to ignore this distinction between forms of determination has resulted in an otherwise avoidable lack of clarity in the reception of Kant’s views on freedom and agency. Second, the interpretive plausibility...

... considering whether to make types of judgment with which we are concerned in the courtroom let alone the seminar room. Finally, an important question arises for Sosa's new virtue epistemology that did not arise for his previous views: by giving a role to agency in his account of judgmental belief is he...

...Scott Stapleford McCormick Miriam Schleifer , Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief . New York: Routledge , 2015 . xiv + 144 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 A spanner in the works: that's how evidentialists will see this new book by Miriam...

...C. Thi Nguyen Games may seem like a waste of time, where we struggle under artificial rules for arbitrary goals. The author suggests that the rules and goals of games are not arbitrary at all. They are a way of specifying particular modes of agency. This is what make games a distinctive art form...

...Michael E. Bratman Cornell University 2000 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 1 (January 2000) Reflection, Planning, and Temporally Extended Agency Michael E. Bratman 1. Core Features of Human Agency We...

...Carl Ginet THE WORKS OF AGENCY: ON HUMAN ACTION, WILL, AND FREEDOM. By Hugh J. McCann. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 238. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVIEWS because of the way we are. This is somehow true even for DOORKNOB...

... relations shaping Kant's early cosmology points us to a widely recognized motivation for interactionism, turning on a constraint on agency within certain noninteractionist cosmologies. In particular, Kant's early conversion to a libertarian theory of freedom, together with his rejection of occasionalism...

... that critics have raised. I also show how the argument fails because, at a crucial point, it begs the question in favor of the value of humanity. It thus fails for internal reasons that do not depend on rejecting Korsgaard's metaethical constructivism or her conception of rational agency. © 2018 by Cornell...

.... A morally responsible agent must after all be an agent. And agency, she argues, extends well down the ladder of nature, vanishing only when we get to plants, sponges, and paramecia. Moreover, Steward argues that it is agency per se, and not just the kind of freedom required for responsibility...

... judgments of such an agent will be recognizably ethical and how ideal agency can be equated with virtue. Becker’s discus- sion here is quite complicated, but the basic idea seems to be that as a child develops psychologically healthy agency s/he also becomes the sort of person who displays what we...

....4 Some memories have a third grade of de se marking. These are expe- riential memories from the inside. First, the notion of being from the inside; then, the three grades. An experiential memory from the inside is one that retains the perspective of one’s remembered agency, state...

... adapting as a procedural metamodel of action how to train adaptability how masters educate others in adaptive agency Each of these seven is explored individually in the second chapter of the book, with all claims based in sources from Han and pre-Han texts. The book is divided into six...

... that merely happen to us (mere behaviors), and (2) the significance, for our expressions of reasons-based agency, of the distinction between the reasons that we have for acting and the reasons for which we actually act” (24). The second point is associated with Donald Davidson’s much-discussed challenge...