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Toward an Ecological Approach to Agency

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The Philosophy of Affordances

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In this chapter, I offer a sketch of some key aspects that should be taken into account for proposing a theory of agency based on the main contributions of the ecological approach. In this sense, the conclusions of this chapter are far from offering a full-blown approach to agency from an ecological standpoint; I simply aim to provide some ideas and contributions from which elaborating such a general view in the future.

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Heras-Escribano, M. (2019). Toward an Ecological Approach to Agency. In: The Philosophy of Affordances. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98830-6_5

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