Free Agency

By D. Grier, E. D. Dumbacher. Computer, 2012

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Mind-making practices: the social infrastructure of self-knowing agency and responsibility (2015, background): “While accounts vary, it is generally thought that they are a special kind of conative state, something like a desire but often motivationally less powerful despite being privileged in some sense by the agent herself (Frankfurt 1971; Scheffler 2012; Watson 1975).”
Why humans are (sometimes) less rational than other animals: Cognitive complexity and the axioms of rational choice (2013, background): “…literature on the notion of strong evaluation (Bratman, 2003; Dworkin, 1988; Harman, 1993; Lehrer, 1990, 1997; Lewis, 1989; Maher, 1993; Watson, 1975), and it is one that is of potential theoretical interest for decision scientists (see Flanagan, 1996, for an insightful discussion of…”
Consciousness, Implicit Attitudes and Moral Responsibility (2014, neutral): “On identification theories, such as those associated with Frankfurt (1971) and Watson (1975), agents are responsible for behaviors caused by states with which they identify.”