Distributed Agency presents an interdisciplinary inroad into the
latest thinking about the distributed nature of agency: what it's
like, what are its conditions of possibility, and what are its
consequences. The book's 25 chapters are written by a wide range of
scholars, from anthropology, biology, cognitive science,
linguistics, philosophy, psychology, geography, law, economics, and
sociology. While each chapter takes up different materials using
different methods, they all chart relations between the key
elements of agency: intentionality, causality, flexibility and
accountability. Each chapter seeks to explain how and why such
relations are distributed-not just across individuals, but also
across bodies and minds, people and things, spaces and times. To do
this, the authors work through empirical studies of particular
cases, while also offering reviews and syntheses of key ideas from
the authors' respective research traditions. Our goals with this
collection of essays are to assemble insights from new research on
the anatomy of human agency, to address divergent framings of the
issues from different disciplines, and to suggest directions for
new debates and lines of research. We hope that it will be a
resource for researchers working on allied topics, and for students
learning about the elements of human-specific modes of shared
action, from causality, intentionality, and personhood to ethics,
punishment, and accountability.
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