Visiting Speaker: Frederica Berdini, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Abstract: This paper relates cases of socially displaced and distorted agency —i.e., agency exercised in conditions of oppression— to Christine Korsgaard’s constitutivist Authorship view of agency. In light of a potential problem that these cases pose to Korsgaard’s view, I suggest a way to amend it in an interactionist and socially situated key. I do so by incorporating G.E.M.