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Agency and autonomy I: Agency and an attitude to a soul

August 22, 2013

The notion of agency is essential to understanding our society. If we cannot say who did something, or what it means to be the one actual acting in a specific case, then all of the language games of legal liability, contractual freedom and intellectual property – to name but a few subjects – falter and…

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This is my research blog, where I sketch things out, think things through, guess, provoke, am often wrong and struggle to understand stuff. I am interested in the intersection of technology, philosophy and law – but also in more fundamental issues of the philosophy of information, games, technology and concepts.

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