An important construct to be measured in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 is degree which 15-year-olds are knowledgeable of, concerned about, and able act on environmental issues as a result of their science education. This document justifies explains competencies youth need address local global challenges this epoch human influences planet. Those with agency Anthr...

Though there are many challenges to Ekman’s thesis that basic emotions with universal corresponding facial expressions, our main criticism revolves around the extent which grounding situations alter how people read faces. To end, we recruit testifying experimental studies show identical faces expressing varying when contextualized differently. Rather than dismissing these as illusions, start po...

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A good deal of Donald Davidson's important and widely influential paper, `The Logical Form of Action Sentences',1 is taken up with demonstrating the failure of the Kenny-Chisholm-von Wright style 2 account of the syntax of agency to adequately cope with a varied collection of problems. The approach repudiated by Davidson enjoins partitioning an action-sentence into an agent, a state of affairs,...

Until recently perfect rationality was the most desired property of intelligent systems, i.e. rational agents, stipulating that they always act so as to maximize their expected utility given their beliefs. Nowadays a shift can be seen both in economy (from perfect to bounded rationality), in game theory (from action to program selection) and in philosophy (from act to rule utilitarianism) becau...

The aim of this article is to show (1) that freedom and agency are among Nietzsche’s central concerns, (2) that his much-discussed interest in power in fact originates in a first-person account of freedom, and (3) that this novel understanding of the phenomenon of freedom informs his ‘theory’ of agency. I will argue that while Nietzsche questions the weight philosophers have given to the first-...

This chapter is about the notion of agency and its role in language learning. The main principle involved is that learning depends on the activity and the initiative of the learner, more so than on any “inputs” that are transmitted to the learner by a teacher or a textbook. This does not, of course, diminish the need for texts and teachers, since they fulfil a crucial mediating function, but it...