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Contents

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

Chapter One: Agency

11

1.

Semantics

11

2.

Two Points of Reference

11

3.

Individuality

18

4.

Purpose/Intention

19

5.

Sensibility

23

6.

Thought and Perception

26

7.

Competence and Skill

30

8.

Effort

31

9.

Partners

31

10.

Efficacy

32

11.

Oversight

35

12.

Frustration

38

13.

Will

38

Chapter Two: Free Will

39

1.

Introduction

39

2.

Background

40

3.

Freedom To and Freedom From

42

4.

Ontology

44

5.

Universal Determinism

45

6.

Explanation/Prediction

47

7.

Cause or Capacity

49

8.

Leibniz or Laplace

50

9.

“Things Are Not Up to Us.”

54

10.

Emergent Wholes, Their Properties and Powers

62

11.

Character/Sensibility

65

12.

Initiative

68

13.

Productive Imagination

70

14.

Consciousness

71

15.

Choosing Freely

72

16.

Last Thoughts

93

Chapter Three: Socialization

95

1.

Conflicted Aims

95

2.

Idiosyncrasy

97

3.

Talent

101

4.

Interiority

102

5.

Social Space

104

6.

Normativity

106

7.

Socialization

107

8.

Collaboration, Cooperation, Command

110

9.

Cities

112

10.

Disequilibrium

115

Chapter Four: Autonomy

119

1.

Minerva

119

2.

Semantics

120

3.

Assertion

120

4.

Self-Identification

122

5.

Collaboration/Contention

123

6.

Regulation

125

7.

Oversight

126

8.

In Itself, For Itself

128

Chapter Five: Moral Identity

129

1.

Three Perspectives: Agents

130

2.

Three Perspectives: Nodes

141

3.

Three Perspectives: The Whole

147

Afterword

177

Bibliography

179

Index

185