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Agency (philosophy)
About: Agency (philosophy) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10461 publications have been published within this topic receiving 350831 citations. The topic is also known as: Thought & Human agency.
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TL;DR: The role of material culture in families is explored in this paper, where a longitudinal case study extends Kopytoff's theory of singularization by explaining what occurs between the singularization of a focal object and its recommodification.
Abstract: Our study contributes to understanding the role of material culture in families. Findings from a longitudinal case study extend Kopytoff’s theory of singularization by explaining what occurs between the singularization of a focal object and its recommodification. We uncover processes that move an already singularized object in and out of a network of practices, objects, and spaces; identify forces that constrain and empower a singularized object’s agency within that network; and demonstrate network transformations that result from the focal object’s movement. This extension explains some paradoxical findings in consumer research: how objects are granted agency even while displaced, when irreplaceable objects can be replaced, and why families sometimes displace central identity practices.
250 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how the dongba as the ritual practitioner perceives his authenticity during the marriage ceremony in the Naxi Wedding Courtyard in Lijiang, China, and find that the power of his making judgment is not entirely related to the toured objects, socially constructed reality or the existential feel- ing, but also has to do with what happens in between.
246 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the emerging literature highlighting that morality and sociability make unique contribution to social judgment and that morality has a primary role in the evaluations we make of individuals and groups.
Abstract: Agency and communion are the core dimensions of social judgment as they indicate whether someone's intentions toward us are beneficial or harmful (i.e., communion), and whether they have the ability to fulfil their intentions (i.e., agency). Recent advances have demonstrated that communion encompasses both sociability (e.g., friendliness, likeability) and morality (e.g., honesty, trustworthiness) characteristics. In this article, we review the emerging literature highlighting that morality and sociability make unique contribution to social judgment and that morality has a primary role in the evaluations we make of individuals and groups. We also consider the evidence showing that morality and sociability play distinct roles in the positive evaluation of the individual and group self-concept. We conclude that future research on social judgment should expand the two-dimensional model to the more specific aspects of communion captured in information about morality and sociability.
237 citations
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the agent as cause is defined as the agent who acts on behalf of the agent's beliefs and the agent-as-cause as a set of reasons and causes.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Freedom and Determinism 2. Freedom and Indeterminism: Some Unsatisfactory Proposals 3. The Agent as Cause: Reid, Taylor, and Chisholm 4. The Metaphysics of Free Will 5. Reasons and Causes 6. Agency, Mind, and Reductionism Bibliography Index
236 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the development of the liberal peace, identifying its internal components and the often-ignored tensions between them, and conclude that the resulting liberal peace is often very flimsy and at best "virtual" rather than emancipatory.
Abstract: To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace. Pope John Paul II, 1 1981 Pax Invictis2 Virtue runs amok. Attributed to G.K. Chesterton This essay examines the development of the liberal peace, identifying its internal components and the often-ignored tensions between them. The construction of the liberal peace, and its associated discourses and practices in post-conflict environments is far from coherent. It is subject to significant intellectual and practical shortcomings, not least related to its focus on political, social, and economic reforms as mainly long-term institutional processes resting on the reform of governance. It thereby neglects interim issues such as the character, agency and needs of civil society actors, especially related to the ending of war economies, and their replacement with frameworks that respond to individual social and economic needs, as well as political needs. The resultant peace is therefore often very flimsy and at best ‘virtual’, rather than emancipatory.
236 citations