What's anthropological agency?
I heard a fascinating Anthropology talk yesterday at Stanford, which suggested that food in Bengal, India, was an actant, or had agency.
... vis-a-vis mediation and in terms of being a generator of relationships ...
"Food as Mediation"
Manpreet K. Janeja
https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/1531
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What's agency philosophically?
Wikipedia -
agency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy)
Oxford Companion to Philosophy -
agent.
A person (or other being) who is the subject when there is action. A long history attaches to thinking ...
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199264797.001.0001/acref-9780199264797-e-46
agent causation.
A direct causal relation between agents and actions that is irreducible to causation by events and states. Advocates of agent ...
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199264797.001.0001/acref-9780199264797-e-47
agent-relative moralities.
Typical agent-relative moral principles forbid us from committing one murder even if by not doing so we permit five to ...
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199264797.001.0001/acref-9780199264797-e-48
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Action -
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/action/
Shared agency -
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/shared-agency/
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What's agency for robotics? When can we say that a robot has achieved various degrees of autonomous causation?
'Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents' series at the MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/intelligent-robotics-and-autonomous-agents-series
"When Is a Robot a Moral Agent?"
by John Sullins
http://www.academia.edu/150599/When_Is_a_Robot_a_Moral_Agent
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What's agency for digital bots such as avatars in virtual worlds?
see these previous blog posts -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/avatar%20agency
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