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Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency

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In philosophy, agents are often distinguished by a propensity for reflection – conscious and self-conscious mentation effecting control of behaviour. In psychology, quantities of research on parallel processing suggest that the philosophical conception of agency is empirically inadequate; much human behaviour is not consciously controlled, and is evaluatively incongruent with the deliverances of reflection. A psychologically lifelike conception of agency will therefore de-emphasize reflection; instead, the forms of self-direction marked with the honorific morally responsible agency emerge in the social dialogue by which humans regulate their behaviour.

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