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Brown Bag Lectures are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. The Brown Bag Lecture series was discontinued in 2014 with the KLI moving to its new premises in Klosterneuburg. In 2014 the KLI Colloquia were established as the new lecture series.

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Wayne Christensen
KLI Brown Bag
Towards an Integrative Framework for Agency
WAYNE CHRISTENSEN (Philosophy, MACCS Macquarie University, Australia)
2008-10-10 13:15 - 2008-10-10 13:15
KLI for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria
Organized by KLI

Topic description:
Many different disciplines and fields study agency & agency-related issues, yet communication amongst them is fragmentary and ad hoc. This impairs progress because theory development fails take into account the full range of relevant issues and evidence. Here I present an outline for an integrative conceptual framework for agency, and as part of this framework develop a biologically grounded acount of the core features of cognitive agency. I argue that this account can cast light on the kind of autonomous agency that is of concern to moral and political theorists, and might serve as a starting point for a broader integration of biological, cognitive, economic and moral perspectives on agency.

 

Biographical note:
Wayne Christensen is at the MACCS cognitive science centre at Macquarie University, Australia. From 2002-2004 he was a Fellow at the KLI. His research interests include the evolution of cognition, executive control, skills, and memory.