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  2. Agency (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Agency is contrasted to objects reacting to natural forces involving only unthinking deterministic processes. In this respect, agency is subtly distinct from the concept of free will, the philosophical doctrine that our choices are not the product of causal chains, but are significantly free or undetermined. Human agency entails the claim that ...

  3. Agency - Wikipedia

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    Agency (law), a person acting on behalf of another person; Agency (moral), capacity for making moral judgments; Agency (philosophy), the capacity of an autonomous agent to act, relating to action theory in philosophy; Agency (psychology), the ability to recognize or attribute agency in humans and non-human animals

  4. Shaun Gallagher - Wikipedia

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    Shaun Gallagher is an American philosopher known for his work on embodied cognition, [6] social cognition, agency and the philosophy of psychopathology.Since 2011, he has held the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis and was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation (2012–2018).

  5. Assemblage (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Assemblage (from French: agencement, "a collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled") is a philosophical approach for studying the ontological diversity of agency, which means redistributing the capacity to act from an individual to a socio-material network of people, things, and narratives.

  6. French philosophy - Wikipedia

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    French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century philosophy of science, existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, and postmodernism.

  7. Agency (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential. Social structure consists of those factors of influence (such as social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability, customs, etc.) that determine or limit agents and their decisions. [ 1 ]

  8. 2007 in philosophy - Wikipedia

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    The French philosopher André Gorz committed suicide together with his incurably ill wife, Dorine, on 22 September 2007 in Vosnon, France. [1] The French news agency Agence France-Presse stated that "the couple were found by a friend side by side in their home southeast of Paris surrounded by letters written to close friends and relatives."

  9. Bruno Latour - Wikipedia

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    Bruno Latour (/ l ə ˈ t ʊər /; French:; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. [5] He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). [6]