Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency

<p>Phenomenology has primarily been concerned with questions about knowledge and ontology. However, in recent years the rise of interest and research in phenomenology and embodiment, the emotions and cognitive science has seen the concept of agency move to a central place in the study of phenomenology generally.</p><p>The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency is an outstanding reference source to this topic and the first volume of its kind. It comprises twenty-seven chapters written by leading international contributors. Organised into two parts, the following key topics are covered:</p><p>• major figures<br>• the metaphysics of agency<br>• rationality<br>• voluntary and involuntary action<br>• moral experience<br>• deliberation and choice<br>• phenomenology of agency and the cognitive sciences<br>• phenomenology of freedom<br>• embodied agency</p><p>Essential reading for students and researchers in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of cognitive science <i>The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency </i>will also be of interest to those in closely related subjects such as sociology and psychology.</p> <p>Introduction <i>Christopher Erhard and Tobias Keiling </i><b>Part 1: Important Figures: From Brentano to Tengelyi </b>1. Franz Brentano’s Critique of Free Will <i>Denis Seron </i>2. Phenomenology of Willing in Pfänder and Husserl <i>Karl Mertens </i>3. Alexander Pfänder’s Phenomenology of Motivation <i>Genki Uemura </i>4. Scheler’s Phenomenology of Freedom and His Theory of Action <i>Eugene Kelly </i>5. The Intentionality and Positionality of Spontaneous Acts: Adolf Reinach’s Account of Agency <i>Francesca DeVecchi </i>6. Dietrich von Hildebrand on the Will and Intentional Agency <i>Alessandro Salice </i>7. The Varieties of Activity – Hans Reiner’s Contribution <i>Christopher Erhard </i>8. Martin Heidegger: From Fluid Action to <i>Gelassenheit</i> <i>Sacha Golob </i>9. Edith Stein: Psyche and Action <i>Antonio Calcagno </i>10. Action in the Phenomenology of Alfred Schütz <i>Michael Barber </i>11. Determined to act: On the structural place of <i>acting</i> in Sartre’s ontology of subjectivity <i>Simone Neuber </i>12. Emmanuel Levinas: Freedom, and Agency <i>Michael Morgan </i>13. Hanna Arendt: Plural Agency, Political Power, and Spontaneity <i>Marieke Borren </i>14. Merleau-Ponty and Agency <i>Thomas Baldwin </i>15. Paul Ricœur: A Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Meaningful Action <i>Timo Helenius </i>16.<i> Operari Sequitur Esse</i>: Hermann Schmitz’s Attitudinal Theory of Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility <i>Henning Nörenberg </i>17. Hubert Dreyfus: Skillful Coping and the Nature of Everyday Expertise <i>Justin White </i>18. Life is an adventure: László Tengelyi’s phenomenology of action <i>Tobias Keiling </i><b>Part 2: Systematic Perspectives Phenomenology of Agency 1: General Issues </b>19. On the Satisfaction Conditions of Agentive Phenomenology: A Dialogue <i>Terry Horgan and Martine Nida-Rümelin </i>20. <Ambulo!>: Structures of Phenomenology and Ontology in Action<i> David Woodruff Smith </i>21. Will-Power: Essentially Embodied Agentive Phenomenology, By Way of O’Shaughnessy <i>Robert Hanna </i>22. Phenomenology of Agency and the Cognitive Sciences<i> Shaun Gallagher </i><b>Phenomenology of Agency 2: Aspects of Agency </b>23. Phenomenology of Free Agency <i>Galen Strawson </i>24. The Phenomenology of Rational Agency<i> Roberta De Monticelli </i>25. Deliberating, Choosing, and Acting<i> John J. Drummond </i>26. Involuntariness: Actions and their Context<i> Günter Figal </i>27. Moral Experience: Its Existence, Describability, and Significance <i>Uriah Kriegel. </i><i>Index</i></p>