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d'Inverno, Mark. "Agents, agency and autonomy : a formal computational model." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586863.

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In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in agents and multi-agent systems in a variety of areas including artificial intelligence, and software engineering. Agent technology, however, is still relatively young, and there is much debate and discussion over many important concepts and the relevant terminology. In particular, in a great deal of agent research, agents themselves are defined in wildly different ways, if at all, and this makes it extremely difficult to be explicit about their nature and functionality. These problems have arisen in part due to the lack of a common st

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Campbell, Peter G. "Rational agency." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28592.

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It is claimed that action discourse provides us with a criterion of adequacy for a theory of action; that with action discourse we have a family of concepts which a theory of action must accommodate. After an exegesis of Davidson's essay "Agency", it is argued that his semantics of action is incompatible with our concepts of motivation and responsibility for action and of attributions of action and agency, and must, therefore, be rejected. A theory of rational agency is presented within which are to be found accounts of intention, coming to intend, intentional action, and an alternative semant

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Pulman, C. G. "Manifest agency." Thesis, University of Reading, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542274.

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Gibb, Alexander James. "Peer agency." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423623.

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Santos, Elder Rizzon. "Creative agency." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/28359.

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A presente tese de doutorado descreve uma pesquisa interdisciplinar nas áreas de criatividade computacional e agentes cognitivos. A motivação para a integração dessas áreas é o estudo da habilidade humana de utilizar suas experiências prévias e conhecimento geral para resolver problemas e lidar com situações a partir do momento em que as mesmas são apresentadas. Imbuídos dessa motivação, nosso propósito é ampliar a utilização do conhecimento de agentes, inspirado na forma como, nós, humanos entendemos e vivenciamos o mundo. Nossa abordagem para concretizar essa visão de pesquisa é adotar teori

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Evans, Zack. "Intentional agency." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/88724/.

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There are two central arguments in this project. The first is a kind of ‘second-order’ argument, that is, an argument about the dialectical situation of an existing argument (namely, about the ‘free will problem’). The second is a straightforward argument about agency, but one which can be better addressed—I claim—once the second-order argument has been made. The ‘free will problem’ is widely claimed to be one of the perennial philosophical problems. But it is not one that has any widely accepted solution. The reason for this, as others have acknowledged, is due in large part to the wide range

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Morton, Julien. "Against Agency." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508971.

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Dias, St?phane Rodrigues. "Agency via dialogue : a pragmatic, dialogue-based approach to agents." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2016. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/6589.

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Dias, Stéphane Rodrigues. "Agency via dialogue: a pragmatic, dialogue-based approach to agents." Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10923/8042.

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Aguilar, Jesús H. "Agency and control." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82814.

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The main objective of this thesis is to defend an account of the control that agents possess over their actions from the perspective of the causal theory of action, that is, a theory that sees actions as events caused by internal states of their agents. The explanatory strategy that is employed for this purpose consists in addressing three interdependent and fundamental problems concerning the possibility of this type of control. The first problem arises from the possibility of controlling an action that is itself transitively caused by previous events. The answer given to this problem

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McKay, Phyllis Kirsten. "Causation and agency." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417234.

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Peacock, Mark S. "On human agency." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389884.

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Leo, Albert T. "The Closure Agency." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/163.

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Fischer, Jessica [Verfasser]. "Agency / Jessica Fischer." Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1225740533/34.

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Taylor, Teresa Brooks. "Agency Training 101." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3640.

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MAANI, SARA. "refugee, agency, city." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/368942.

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My PhD dissertation titled refugee, agency, city, is a research at the intersection of critical urban theories and migration studies. It grows out of an ethnography conducted in Milan, Italy motivated by a search for collective practices of refugees claiming urban space in the years following the 2015 so-called refugee crisis. The ethnography comprises projects shaped by the interactions between refugees and self-organized solidarity groups. These projects include housing struggles, claiming asylum seekers’ rights in refugee camps, and claiming regular jobs and social recognition. Through a mu

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Bullard, Clifford Owen. "Evaluating wildlife law enforcement agent and agency effectiveness : a methodology /." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10062009-020028/.

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Temel-Candemir, Nurcan. "Agency theory : an extended conceptualisation and reformation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16188/1/Nurcan_Temel_Candemir_Thesis.pdf.

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The theory of Agency, specifically that developed by Jesen and Meckling (1976), will be the subject of examination. Agency theory has been the subject of extensive research since its introduction in modern form by Jensen and Meckling (1976). The generality of the theory of Agency appears unquestionable and it has been widely adopted. Surprisingly, however, the model correctly predicts particular phenomena under investigation in only the simplest of instances, and even in the simplest of instances there are cases where the simple agency model has limited success. Possible reasons for thi

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Temel-Candemir, Nurcan. "Agency theory : an extended conceptualisation and reformation." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16188/.

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The theory of Agency, specifically that developed by Jesen and Meckling (1976), will be the subject of examination. Agency theory has been the subject of extensive research since its introduction in modern form by Jensen and Meckling (1976). The generality of the theory of Agency appears unquestionable and it has been widely adopted. Surprisingly, however, the model correctly predicts particular phenomena under investigation in only the simplest of instances, and even in the simplest of instances there are cases where the simple agency model has limited success. Possible reasons for this fa

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Matthews, Maureen Anne. "Repatriating agency : Animacy, personhood and agency in the repatriation of Ojibwe Artefacts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522767.

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Hammond, Mark Edward. "Urban ageing, spatial agency : generating creative agency through the medium of cohousing." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2017. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/619929/.

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Population ageing and urbanisation are two of the defining social changes of the 21st century, but many older people experience a loss of agency within society. Cohousing presents a potential medium for older citizens to increase their agency, but this is limited by the current conception of the architect-cohouser relationship. Spatial Agency provides an alternative approach to architectural practice in cohousing, based on the inclusion of citizens in architectural processes. This thesis investigates the limitations and opportunities of using spatial agency as the basis of the architect’s role

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Peppiatt, A. J. "Self-agency and psychosis : trauma, sense of agency and locus of control." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1408028/.

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This thesis is presented in three parts, all of which focus broadly on the experience of agency in relation to psychosis or psychotic-like experiences. Part one, a systematic review of the literature, examines whether ‘sense of agency’, a subjective awareness of intentional actions, is altered in psychosis and evaluates the evidence for different models proposed to explain such alterations. The evidence suggests SoA is altered in psychosis in a number of ways and is associated with delusions of control and other psychotic phenomena. The research with non-clinical populations, however, is less

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Laub, H. Joan. "Transformation of human agency." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32276.

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The general purpose of this study was to examine transformations of human agency in natural contexts. Existing theoretical formulations have primarily been confined to laboratory investigations. Moreover, the principles generated by such theories have not been validated beyond the laboratory setting. With this purpose in mind, there were two immediate aims of the study. The first aim was to contribute to counselling theory by assessing five prominent theories of human agency and providing a basis from which to potentially establish more adequate theoretical formulations. The second aim was to

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Schlosser, Markus Ernst. "The metaphysics of agency /." St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/163.

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Lorentz, Ben. "Nietzsche's Skepticism of Agency." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_hontheses/8.

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Nietzsche’s view of the self and will seems to culminate in a naturalistic account of human agency. If we understand Nietzsche as primarily a naturalist who thinks philosophy should more or less be modeled on the sciences whose investigations are restricted to empirical observation and whose explanations, like causal explanation, are natural (rather than supernatural), then ascribing a naturalistic account of human agency to Nietzsche is appropriate. However, I argue that attributing a naturalistic account of agency, or any account of agency to Nietzsche, misunderstands Nietzsche’s skepticism.

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Hamid, Jamaliah Abdul. "Agency in school leadership." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368769.

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Schlosser, Markus E. "The metaphysics of agency." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/163.

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Mainstream philosophy of action and mind construes intentional behaviour in terms of causal processes that lead from agent-involving mental states to action. Actions are construed as events, which are actions in virtue of being caused by the right mental antecedents in the right way. Opponents of this standard event-causal approach have criticised the view on various grounds; they argue that it does not account for free will and moral responsibility, that it does not account for action done in the light of reasons, or, even, that it cannot capture the very phenomenon of agency. The thesis defe

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Mylne, Colin Andrew. "Luck and moral agency." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240976.

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Stejskalová, Daniela. "Analýza image STUDENT AGENCY." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-3176.

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Tato diplomová práce se zabývá analýzou firemní image a smyslem jeho řízení z pohledu marketingu i z pohledu managementu v oblasti cestovních kanceláří. Práce obsahuje celkem pět kapitol. První kapitola se zabývá významem pojmu image obecně a způsobem jeho výzkumu. Druhá kapitola charakterizuje ?corporate identity? jako nástroj budování firemní image. A třetí kapitola shrnuje základní pravidla budování image. V návaznosti na část teoretickou jsou ve čtvrté kapitole popsány složky firemní identity společnosti Student Agency a jejich vliv na image Student Agency. Poslední, pátá kapitola, se zabý

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Hope, Claire Susan. "Politicising agency through affect." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8645/.

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The key concern of this practice-led PhD is that lived reality and visual culture exist in a personal and political relation, one which politicises a viewer’s search for alternatives through the image. This suggests that cultural productions are an ideal context for addressing matters of social change; it also reverses the classic critiques of spectatorship within Fine Art, which emphasise critical awareness, the transmission and possession of knowledge and also activity, or participation, in the promotion of political agency in spectators. In this thesis I have used my own moving image and li

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Silvermint, Daniel Mark. "Oppression and Victim Agency." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228113.

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If we want to take the agency of the oppressed seriously, we need to think about their normative situation. We need to understand what oppression does to victims, and what victims ought to do as a result. The first half of my dissertation develops a new account of oppression, one that identifies cases not by the wrongs that oppressors embody but by the burdens that victims suffer. The second half questions what kinds of moral and political actors victims can and should be. According to the prevailing "group relationship" of model of oppression, the members of a social group are oppressed wh

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Gentsch, Antje. "The sense of agency." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16579.

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Das Gefühl die eigenen Handlungen selbst zu verursachen und deren Konsequenzen zu kontrollieren, ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil unserer Selbstwahrnehmung und wird als Erleben von Urheberschaft oder Autorenschaft bezeichnet. Die zugrunde liegenden neurokognitiven Mechanismen sind bislang nur unzureichend verstanden. In zwei Experimenten zur Handlungswahrnehmung wurde bei gesunden Probanden mittels Elektroenzephalogramm (EEG) die Hirnaktivität auf visuelles Handlungsfeedback erfasst. Reduzierte neuronale Aktivität (sensorische Attenuierung) auf selbst versus extern generiertes Feed

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Johansson, Linda. "Robots and Moral Agency." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Filosofi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-32400.

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Machine ethics is a field of applied ethics that has grown rapidly in the last decade. Increasingly advanced autonomous robots have expanded the focus of machine ethics from issues regarding the ethical development and use of technology by humans to a focus on ethical dimensions of the machines themselves. This thesis contains two essays, both about robots in some sense, representing these different perspectives of machine ethics. The first essay, “Is it Morally Right to use UAVs in War?” concerns an example of robots today, namely the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used in war, and the ethic

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Cabayao, Ulysses. "Posthumous Agency on Facebook." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/118431.

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Posthumous Agency on Facebook Abstract: The concept of agency remains contested in anthropology. One aspect of the debate spans from those who, on the one hand, insist that agency is exclusive to living human beings, with all its accompanying implication, to those who, on the other, believe that non-living, non-human things also exert agency. Posthumous agency straddles this debate with its strange creature: the dead human being. In this thesis, however, I seek to examine how the dead in the context of Facebook challenge existing literature on the a

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Bergström, Tobias. "Agency i Förgrenande Dialogsystem : En undersökning om agency i förgrenande dialogsystem i spel." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-12793.

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Frågeställningen till den här studien undersöker hur spelare upplever agency i ett förgrenande dialogsystem med tidsbegränsade valtillfällen i jämförelse med dialogsystem utan tidsbegränsningar. I bakgrunden observeras vad agency betyder och hur begreppet används samt vad tidigare studier har lett till. Kapitlet fortsätter med att diskutera vad meningsfulla val är för något och hur en berättelse kan upplevas som trovärdig. För att kunna besvara studiens frågeställning skapades två olika textbaserade spel, en med tidsbegränsningar i dialogerna och en utan. För övrigt har de inga andra skillnade

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Verame, Jhim Kiel M. "Helping users adopt and delegate agency to autonomous agents in everyday life." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2018. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/423558/.

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Autonomous agents are designed to take actions on behalf of users, acting autonomously upon data from sensors or online sources. However, the performance and actions of such agents are liable to uncertainties. As such, the design of interaction mechanisms that enable users to understand the operation of autonomous agents and flexibly delegate or regain control is an open challenge for HCI. Against this background, in this thesis we report on three studies designed to better understand how to help users interact with autonomous agents. In particular, we begin by understanding how people deal wi

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Verhagen, Hendrikus Leonardus Engelbertus. "Agency in private international law : The Hague Convention on the law applicable to agency /." Dordrecht : The Hague : M. Nijhoff ; TMC Asser instituut, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37761452c.

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Liu, Xin. "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." Diss., lmu, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-117709.

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Ross, Stanley A. "Personal agency in employment groups." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25147.pdf.

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Mellow, David Rodger. "Self-defense, agency, and morality." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0003/MQ34900.pdf.

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Brock, Peggy. "Aboriginal agency, institutionalisation and survival /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb8642.pdf.

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Brewer, Bill. "Objectivity, agency and self-location." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303509.

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Paraskevaides, Andreas. "Social constraints on human agency." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5655.

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In this thesis, I present a view according to which folk psychology is not only used for predictive and explanatory purposes but also as a normative tool. I take it that this view, which I delineate in chapter 1, can help us account for different aspects of human agency and with solving a variety of puzzles that are associated with developing such an account. My goal is to examine what it means to act as an agent in a human society and the way in which the nature of our agency is also shaped by the normative constraints inherent in the common understanding of agency that we share with other ag

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Jubb, Robert. "Contractualism and Agency : A Defense." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519780.

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Kervoas, Gael. "Thomas Reid's theory of agency." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369629.

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The <I>Essays on the Active Powers of Man </I>are Thomas Reid's last major work, where the Scottish philosopher presents an original theory of human agency. This thesis is a critical reconstruction of Reid's theory, showing how it completes his earlier <I>Essays on the Intellectual Powers. </I>It is argued that Reid's theory of agency must be understood as uncovering the essential aspects of the actions of human persons, and therefore that it provides an understanding of the nature of personality and of the agency proper to persons. If Reid's arguments often appear as negative responses to phi

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Heinemann, Chloe Janelle. "Women's Agency in Gothic Literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595049.

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The objective of this thesis is to argue for and analyze the progression of women's agency in the first century of Gothic literature. Starting with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), there are stirrings of women's agency as female protagonists begin to challenge male authority and attempt to escape the entrapment of the patriarchal hierarchy. As we move from Otranto to Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), we can see the progression of women's agency as the heroine acquires social, financial, and romantic control through her strong moral disposition. Finally, a new level

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Gaskin, Richard Maxwell. "Experience, agency and the self." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0b1f3fc5-bae3-4a88-b819-01dd2c8c246f.

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Wilfrid Sellars has made familiar a distinction between manifest and scientific images of man-in-the-world. The manifest image is 'a sophistication and refinement of the image in terms of which man first came to be aware of himself as man-in-the-world' ([2], p.18)/ and in its methodology 'limits itself to what correlational techniques can tell us about perceptible and introspectible events' (p.19). The scientific image, on the other hand, 'postulates imperceptible objects and events for the purpose of explaining correlations among perceptibles.' (ib.) This thesis is centred on a consideration

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Smith, Thomas. "The metaphysics of corporate agency." Thesis, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/804/.

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In Chapter 1, I defend “the first thesis”, which is that expressions of the form ‘_decided to ’, ‘_wished to ’, ‘_intended to ’ and ‘_believed that p’ may be used to truly say something about something that the expression ‘the East India Company’ may be used to pick out. In Chapter 2, I defend “the second thesis”, which is stronger than the first thesis, and which is that an individual i that is picked out by a standard use of the expression ‘the East India Company’ is such that expressions of the form ‘_decided to ’, ‘_wished to ’, ‘_intended to ’ and ‘_believed that p’ may be used to t

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Quinn, Thomas James. "Agency : humans, animals and objects." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2017. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/273/.

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My aim in this thesis is to develop an account of the powers that are fundamental to human agency, by drawing out the similarities between human agency, the agency of non-human animals, and the agency of inanimate objects. Many accounts characterise our actions in terms of mental capacities unique to human agents. But focusing on what human agency has in common with agency of other kinds provides a novel perspective from which we can investigate the features of our agency that receive less attention in the literature. I develop the account by answering two closely related questions, both of wh

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Llona, Bemal Alvaro. ""Agency" en el Derecho Norteamericano." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116448.

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