The Anthropocene brings to the fore need foster ontologies that reject modern “one-world world” (Law 2015) model, characterized by extractivism, dualism and human exceptionalism, requiring enactment of pluriverses (de la Cadena & Blaser 2018) recognize heterogeneous clamor non-human agency. As an attempt listen-with those oppressed silenced extractivist paradigm, in this paper, we propose m...

In cognitive neuroscience the sense of agency is defined as the as the experience of controlling one’s own actions and, through this control, affecting the external world. At CHI 2012 I presented a paper entitled “I did that! Measuring Users’ Experience of Agency in their own Actions” [1]. This extended abstract draws heavily on that paper, which described an implicit measure called intentional...

Introduction Until very recently, the standard approach in action theory seemed to restrict its focus to individuals, as if what goes on in the agent or what she brings about in the world provided the essentials to understand agency. In the past few years, however, there has been an increasing interest in the social character of human action or, as is now termed, the ‘sociality of action’. This...

Three studies evaluated the role of 4-year-old children's agency- and animacy-attributions when learning from a computerized ghost control (GC). In GCs, participants observe events occurring without an apparent agent, as if executed by a "ghost" or unobserved causal forces. Using a touch-screen, children in Experiment 1 responded to three pictures in a specific order under three learning condit...