Search results for "Agency"

Moran on Self-Knowledge, Agency and Responsibility

2006

SUMMARY : In this paper I deal with Richard Moran’s account of self-knowledgein his book Authority and Estrangement . After presenting the main lines of hisaccount, I contend that, in spite of its novelty and interest, it may have someshortcomings. Concerning beliefs formed through deliberation, the account wouldseem to face problems of circularity or regress. And it looks also wanting concerningbeliefs not formed in this way. I go on to suggest a diagnosis of these problems,according to which they would arise out of a view of agents too strongly dependenton the will. KEY WORDS : first person, belief, deliberation, avowals RESUMEN : Este trabajo se ocupa de la concepcion del autoconocimiento…

Dynamic Family System Trajectories From Pregnancy to Child's First Year

2014

According to family systems theory, families consist of hierarchically ordered parts, from basic dyadic relations to marital and parental subsystems (Minuchin, 1985). In the transition to parenthood, family relationships change as the family system adapts to the new situation. Thechanges,suchasimprovementsanddeclines in relationship quality, are different and unique, depending on how emotions and responsibili- ties are shared in the family. For instance, fam- ilies with well-functioning relationships during pregnancy tend also to fare well in the postpar- tum period, whereas families with problematic relationships often experience further decline in their relationship quality across the tra…

Internet-Based Employer Search and Vacancy Duration: Evidence from Finland

2014

This study investigates the effect of the introduction of the public employment agency's Internet-based service on the duration of employer search. The analysis exploits the introduction of a web-based service by the Finnish Employment Agency in October 2002. The results, based on information on job vacancies announced via the public employment agency between 2002 and 2003, indicate that the introduction of the web service, in general, shortened the duration of employer search. However, we find that the introduction of the web-based service shortened the average duration of vacancies in some regions but not in others. In addition, employers in urban areas were more likely to benefit from th…

Professional agency and its features in supporting teachers’ learning during an in-service education programme

2020

Research has shown that professional agency is pivotal for understanding teachers’ professional learning in different contexts. However, we lack an elaborated understanding of teachers’ professiona...

Palermo si cura. Pratiche culturali di mutuo soccorso come risposta alle fragilità della città (post)pandemica

2023

In un quadro di riferimento in cui la crisi è globalizzata ma diseguale e in mancanza di un sistema di welfare capace di rispondere alle urgenze dei contesti e dei gruppi sociali più marginalizzati, una risposta ai nuovi bisogni sociali ed individuali è stata offerta da reti solidali e da pratiche di mobilitazione dal basso che svolgono un ruolo di agency territoriale, spesso indipendentemente o in assenza di Istituzioni. Nel contesto palermitano un impegno agito da una pluralità di soggetti culturali già attivi sul territorio, riuniti in un’assemblea pubblica (Palermo si cura), durante il periodo del primo lockdown hanno dato vita ad azioni di mutuo soccorso per rispondere all’emergenza ec…

Capital Structure Decisions in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

2011

An architecture for observational learning and decision making based on internal models

2013

We present a cognitive architecture whose main constituents are allowed to grow through a situated experience in the world. Such an architectural growth is bootstrapped from a minimal initial knowledge and the architecture itself is built around the biologically-inspired notion of internal models. The key idea, supported by findings in cognitive neuroscience, is that the same internal models used in overt goal-directed action execution can be covertly re-enacted in simulation to provide a unifying explanation to a number of apparently unrelated individual and social phenomena, such as state estimation, action and intention understanding, imitation learning and mindreading. Thus, rather than…

Contro la violenza domestica: Agency delle donne e istituzioni nell’Italia del secondo Ottocento

2023

La violenza domestica e l’agency femminile sembrano due oggetti di studio contradditori e inconciliabili. Tuttavia proprio le esperienze di sopraffazione costituiscono un terreno delicato ma concreto di espressione dell’agency degli attori sociali. Per offrire un quadro di lettura che combini i due termini e permetta di apprezzarne la correlazione, il contributo esplora tre ambiti in cui la violenza di genere è oggetto di discorso, di narrazione, di analisi all’incirca nell’ultimo ventennio dell’Ottocento: sono, innanzitutto, lo spazio e i modi in cui la violenza entra nell’annoso dibattito parlamentare sul divorzio, quindi la conflittualità e la violenza esperite dalle coppie che presentan…

CELEBRATING WOMEN ARTISTS IN JORDAN: REFRAMING GENDER ROLES AS RESISTANCE

This thesis focuses on women artists in the capital of Jordan, Amman, and particularly on their cultural practices as an expression of a creative agency. These women create independent spaces, cultural initiatives, public performances and original artworks that allow the reframing of gender roles in neoliberal patriarchal societies today. Beyond labeling the emergence of a new female activism, or femtivism, as feminist or revolutionary, I suggest reading it as the reconfiguration of a new wave of feminisms in Jordan, which engages with the visual arts, the contemporary cultural scene of Amman, the geography of the city and the political commitment, often in informal domains rather than in i…

The agency of non-human entity in the recent anthropology of the Indigenous Lowland South America

2015

In the last twenty years, agency has entered the field of anthropological studies of Lowland South America Indigenous Peoples as a term and a topic of concern. Ethnographical and theoretical treatment of this notion has intertwined here with the revisiting of the concept of animism, Viveiros de Castro’s statements about “amerindian perspectivism” and a broader “ontological turn” in research orientation. In the paper I discuss this trend, focusing on how different notions of agency are used to talk about topics as shamanism and ontological status of artifacts as well as, more generally, of other non-human categories of beings. I pay attention too to dissonances and consonances in this field …