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cover of Philosophical Topics 32.1-2: Agency

Philosophical Topics 32.1-2

Agency

John M. Fischer

University of Arkansas Press, 2004

Contents
 
Luck Egalitarianism Interpreted and Defended
Richard J. Arneson
 
Three Theories of Self-Governance
Michael E. Bratman
 
Reflections on an Argument from Luck
Randolph Clarke
 
Responsibility for Character
Andrew Eshleman
 
Internally Doing and Intentionally Not Doing
Carl Ginet
 
Irreplaceability and Unique Value
Christopher Grau
 
Freedom, Hedonism, and the Intrinsic Value of Lives
Ishtiyaque Haji
 
Determinism, Randomness, and Value
Noa Latham
 
Responsibility and Globally Manipulated Agents
Michael McKenna
 
The Illusion of Conscious Will and the Causation of Intentional Actions
Alfred R.Mele
 
Deliberative Alternatives
Dana Nelkin
 
Reasons Explanation and Agent Control: In Search of an Integrated Account
Timothy O’Connor and John Ross Churchill
 
Moral Accountability
Marina Oshana
 
Is Our Conception of Agent-Causation Coherent?
Derk Pereboom
 
Responsibility and the Condition of Moral Sense
Paul Russell
 
Ignorance and Blame
Ira M. Schnall
 
Conflicting Attitudes,Moral Agency, and Conceptions of the Self
Angela M. Smith
 
Toward an Axiological Defense of Libertarianism
Daniel Speak
 
Free Agents
Galen Strawson
 
Libertarianism and Skepticism about Free Will: Some Arguments against Both
Manuel Vargas
 
Free Will Demystified: A Dispositional Account
Kadri Vihvelin
 
Constructing Normativity
R. Jay Wallace
 
Neurophilosophy of Moral Responsibility: The Case for Revisionist Compatibilism
Henrik Walter
 
Trying, Intending, and Attempted Crimes
Gideon Yaffe
 
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cover of Postsecular Benjamin: Agency and Tradition

Postsecular Benjamin

Agency and Tradition

Brian Britt

Northwestern University Press, 2016

In readings of Walter Benjamin's work, religion often marks a boundary between scholarly camps, but it rarely receives close and sustained scrutiny. Benjamin's most influential writings pertain to modern art and culture, but he frequently used religious language while rejecting both secularism and religious revival. Benjamin was, in today's terms, postsecular. Postsecular Benjamin explicates Benjamin's engagements with religious traditions as resources for contemporary debates on secularism, conflict, and identity. Brian Britt argues that what animates this work on tradition is the question of human agency, which he pursues through lively and sustained experimentation with ways of thinking, reading, and writing.
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Provoking Agents

GENDER AND AGENCY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Edited by Judith Kegan Gardiner

University of Illinois Press, 1995

     "A major contribution in women's studies and in other disciplines
        dealing with issues of agency. The authors raise issues that are very
        important . . . and they raise them as they must be raised--by bridging
        theory and action." -- Kathryn Pine Addelson, author of Moral
        Passages: Toward a Collectivist Moral Theory
      Both the women's liberation movement and those who have studied it characterize
        agency as the capacity to make change in individual consciousness, personal
        lives, and society. The seventeen contributors to Provoking Agents
        explore whether--and how--feminist theory, writing, and other social practices
        can help readers move beyond seeing women as a powerless group to effecting
        changes in their own lives and, ultimately, becoming social activists.
        Topics in this multi-disciplinary collection range from maternal surrogacy
        to writing, from consciousness-raising to AIDS activism, from pornography
        to local organizing
 
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