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The Difference It Makes
- SCHiM 10y agoScience does not remove agency, it's merely determines how much of it was there in the first place imo. For example if you attribute agency to the orbit of a planet, then science only determined the exact places the planet will ever be in, it did not remove any places the planet could ever be in you just did not know about it. Edit: Also I think the conclusion of the book is wrong. it's not nature that is filled with agency, it's that we ourselves are not really agents (like the article implies at the end).
- gumby 10y agoAstonishing that she mentioned Dennett and yet does not discuss his Intentional Stance (or at least it does not come up in this book review) a rather significant philosophical exploration of the topic of claimed or modeled agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_stance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_stance