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Explicating agency: the case of visual attention

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How do individuals guide their activities towards some goal? Harry Frankfurt once identified the task of explaining guidance as the central problem in action theory. An explanation has proved to be elusive, however. In this paper I show how we can marshal empirical research to make explanatory progress. I contend that human agents have a primitive capacity to guide visual attention, and that this capacity is actually constituted by a sub-individual psychological control-system: the executive system. I thus illustrate how we can explain exercises of individual-level guidance by appeal to its sub-individual constitution. This opens up a new avenue for explicating agency.
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hal-03912012 , version 1 (03-02-2023)

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Denis Buehler. Explicating agency: the case of visual attention. Philosophical Quarterly, 2022, ⟨10.1093/pq/pqac034⟩. ⟨hal-03912012⟩
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