Distributed Agency by N.J. Enfield (English) Paperback Book

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"This book presents the latest thinking on the distributed nature of agency: its nature, its causes, its consequences. The book opens up fundamental questions about human agency, and offer answers that are state-of-the-art and interdisciplinary, yet accessible"--

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Distributed Agency presents an interdisciplinary inroad into the latest thinking about the distributed nature of agency: what it's like, what are its conditions of possibility, and what are its consequences. The book's 25 chapters are written by a wide range of scholars, from anthropology, biology, cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, geography, law, economics, and sociology. While each chapter takes up different materials using differentmethods, they all chart relations between the key elements of agency: intentionality, causality, flexibility and accountability. Each chapter seeks to explain how and why such relations are distributed-notjust across individuals, but also across bodies and minds, people and things, spaces and times. To do this, the authors work through empirical studies of particular cases, while also offering reviews and syntheses of key ideas from the authors' respective research traditions. Our goals with this collection of essays are to assemble insights from new research on the anatomy of human agency, to address divergent framings of the issues from different disciplines, and to suggest directions for newdebates and lines of research. We hope that it will be a resource for researchers working on allied topics, and for students learning about the elements of human-specific modes of shared action, fromcausality, intentionality, and personhood to ethics, punishment, and accountability.

Author Biography

N.J. Enfield is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.Paul Kockelman teaches linguistic anthropology at Yale University.

Table of Contents

i. Contributorsii. PrefacePart One: Agency as Flexible and Accountable CausalityChapter 1. Elements of AgencyN.J. EnfieldChapter 2. Distribution of AgencyN.J. EnfieldChapter 3. Gnomic AgencyPaul KockelmanChapter 4. Semiotic AgentsPaul KockelmanPart Two: Agency of Institutions and InfrastructureChapter 5. Agency in State AgenciesAnya Bernstein6. Upending Infrastructure in Revolutionary EgyptJulia ElyacharPart Three: Language and Agency7. On Brain-to-Brain Interfaces, Distributed Agency and LanguageMark Dingemanse8. Requesting as a Means for Negotiating Distributed AgencySimeon Floyd9. Social Agency and GrammarGiovanni Rossi and Jörg Zinken10. Distributed Agency and Action under the Radar of AccountabilityJack SidnellPart Four: Economy and Agency11. Distributed Agency and Debt in the Durational Ethics of ResponsibilityJane I. Guyer12. Money as Token and Money as Record in Distributed AccountsBill MaurerPart Five: Distributing Agency within Selves and Species13. Distribution of Agency across Body and SelfRuth Parry14. Distributed Agency in AntsPatrizia D'ettorePart Six: Social Bonding through Embodied Agency15. Group Exercise and Social BondingEmma Cohen16. Social Bonding Through Dance and 'Musiking'Bronwyn TarrPart Seven: Agency and Infancy17. Time Scales for Understanding the Agency of Infants and CaregiversJoanna Raczaszek-Leonardi18. Movement Synchrony, Joint Actions and Collective Agency in InfancyBahar TunçgençPart Eight: The Agency of Materiality19. The Agency of the DeadZoe Crossland20. Distributed Agency in PlayBenjamin Smith21. Contingency and the Semiotic Mediation of Distributed AgencyEitan WilfPart Nine: The Place of Agency22. Place and Extended AgencyPaul C. Adams23. How Agency is Distributed through InstallationsSaadi LahlouPart Ten: From Cooperation to Deception and DisruptionChapter 24. Cooperation and Social ObligationsDavid P. SchweikardChapter 25. Deception as Exploitative Social AgencyRadu UmbresChapter 26. Disrupting Agents, Distributing AgencyCharles H. P. Zuckerman

Long Description

Distributed Agency presents an interdisciplinary inroad into the latest thinking about the distributed nature of agency: what it's like, what are its conditions of possibility, and what are its consequences. The book's 25 chapters are written by a wide range of scholars, from anthropology, biology, cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, geography, law, economics, and sociology. While each chapter takes up different materials using differentmethods, they all chart relations between the key elements of agency: intentionality, causality, flexibility and accountability. Each chapter seeks to explain how and why such relations are distributed-not just across individuals, but also across bodies and minds, people and things, spaces and times. To dothis, the authors work through empirical studies of particular cases, while also offering reviews and syntheses of key ideas from the authors' respective research traditions. Our goals with this collection of essays are to assemble insights from new research on the anatomy of human agency, to address divergent framings of the issues from different disciplines, and to suggest directions for new debates and lines of research. We hope that it will be a resource for researchers working on alliedtopics, and for students learning about the elements of human-specific modes of shared action, from causality, intentionality, and personhood to ethics, punishment, and accountability.

Feature

Selling point: Uses an unusually multi-disciplinary approach to the latest thinking about the distributed nature of agencySelling point: Case studies frequently illustrate theoriesSelling point: Often demands moral accountability in relation to distributed causality and joint intentionalitySelling point: It is the most accessible interdisciplinary examination to date of the notion of distributed agency

Details ISBN019045721X Year 2017 ISBN-10 019045721X ISBN-13 9780190457211 Format Paperback Edited by Paul Kockelman DEWEY 306.44 Pages 304 Position Senior Lecturer Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Affiliation Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Language English Author Paul Kockelman Publication Date 2017-03-02 UK Release Date 2017-03-02 AU Release Date 2017-03-02 NZ Release Date 2017-03-02 US Release Date 2017-03-02 Illustrator Qu Lan Birth 1927 Qualifications PhD Series Foundations of Human Interaction Alternative 9780190457204 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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