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    The Shape of Agency

    Control, Action, Skill, Knowledge

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    Author(s)
    Shepherd, Joshua
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    In this book Shepherd offers a perspective on the shape of agency by offering interlinked explanations of the basic building blocks of agency, as well as its exemplary instances. In the book’s first part, he offers accounts of phenomena that have long troubled philosophers of action: control over behavior, non-deviant causation, and intentional action. These accounts build on earlier work in the causalist tradition and undermine the claims of many that causalism cannot offer a satisfying account of non-deviant causation, and therefore intentional action. In the book’s second part, he turns to modes of agentive excellence—ways that agents display quality of form. He offers a novel account of skill, including an account of the ways that agents display more or less skill. He discusses the role of knowledge in skill and concludes that while knowledge is often important, it is inessential. This leads to a discussion of knowledge of action—of the way that knowledge of action and knowledge of how to act informs action execution. Shepherd argues that knowledgeable action includes a unique epistemic underpinning. For in knowledgeable action, the agent has authoritative knowledge of what she is doing and how she is doing it when and because she is poised to control her action by way of practical reasoning.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46341
    Keywords
    control, non-deviant causation, intention, action, intentional action, agency, knowledge in action, skill, knowledgeable action
    DOI
    10.1093/oso/9780198866411.001.0001
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Publisher website
    https://global.oup.com/
    Publication date and place
    Oxford, 2021
    Grantor
    • Fundació Bosch i Gimpera
    Classification
    Philosophy
    Philosophy of mind
    Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
    Pages
    208
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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