{"product_id":"the-shape-of-agency-control-action-skill-knowledge-hardcover","title":"The Shape of Agency: Control, Action, Skill, Knowledge - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Shepherd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Shape of Agency\u003c\/em\u003e offers interlinked explanations of the basic building blocks of agency, as well as its exemplary instances. The first part offers accounts of a collection of related phenomena that have long troubled philosophers of action: control over behaviour, non-deviant causation, and intentional action. These accounts build on earlier work in the causalist tradition, and undermine the claims made by many that causalism cannot offer a satisfying account of non-deviant causation, and therefore fails as an account of intentional action. The second part turns to modes of agentive excellence--ways that agents display quality of form--providing a novel account of skill, including an account of the ways that agents display more or less skill. Shepherd discusses the role of knowledge in skill, and concludes that while knowledge is often important, it is inessential. This leads to a discussion of the way that knowledge of action and knowledge of how to act informs action execution.\u003cbr\u003eKnowledgeable action includes a unique epistemic underpinning: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Shepherd, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoshua Shepherd is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, a Research Fellow at the University of Barcelona, where he is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project Rethinking Conscious Agency, and a Global Scholar in CIFAR's Azrieli program on Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. His work covers the philosophy of mind, action, psychology, and practical ethics. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eConsciousness and Moral Status\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2018).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162148442247,"sku":"9780198866411","price":162.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3d6f8bbd90d3f47c111316563d3bd11a.webp?v=1733287026","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-shape-of-agency-control-action-skill-knowledge-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}