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One: Introduction -- Two: Passivity and Activity in Intentional Action -- Three: Intending, Judging, and the Cognitive Model -- Four: Further and Future Intentions -- Five: Expressions of Intention -- Six: Intentions: The Structures -- Seven: Intentions: The Contents -- Eight: Dynamics of Intentional Action -- Nine: Agency and Psychological Causation -- Ten: Questions and Some Answers -- Eleven: Activity and Development -- Twelve: Overview -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

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AbstractA thorny question surrounding the meaning ofoughtconcerns a felt distinction between deontic uses ofoughtthat seem to evaluate a state of affairs versus those that seem to describe a requirement or obligation to perform an action, as in (A) and (B), respectively. (A) There ought not be childhood death and disease. (B) You ought to keep that promise. Various accounts have been offered to explain the contrast between "agentive" and "non-agentive"oughtsentences. One such account is the Agency-in-the-Prejacent theory ("AIP"), which traces the difference to a particular kind of ambiguity in the prejacent. This theory has been criticized as linguistically unviable. Indeed, I level a few novel complaints against AIP myself in the present paper. But AIP has a kernel of genuine insight which allows us to explain the contrast—that the distinction between agentive and non-agentiveoughtsentences owes in part to the way natural language encodes information about agency. I develop this idea into a novel account that, like AIP, traces the contrast to an ambiguity in the complement of the modal. However, according to the view I propose, the Coercion View, a linguistically-motivated coercion operation produces the necessary grammatical conditions for agentiveought, which in turn allow a kind of variadic function operator in the style of (in: Recanati, Literal Meaning. Cambridge University Press, 2004) to produce the semantic effect we see on display in agentive readings ofought. Having explained the mechanism by which we get this structure, I show that it corroborates some of the central intuitions underwriting agentiveought. I submit that the Coercion View offers an explanation of agentiveoughtto take at least as seriously as any of its competitors.

We give below two articles, both concerning the same subject. The
first is a general survey by the Head of the Agency, Mr. E. L. Jaquet.
Readers are aware that the Swiss Government, on the occasion of
the Centenary of the Red Cross, decided to donate to the ICRC a
new building to house the Agency, for, indeed, this service is today
in a building which is not suitable for the protection of irreplaceable
records against the effects of light, fire, humidity and dust.

"This paper discusses Mikhail M. Bakhtin's notion of chronotope applied to the Christian concept of the two futures to be and to come, which basically are to be distinguished by their respective spatio-temporal relations. These require a consideration of the involvement of human agency and practice in processes of future. This can be particularly well investigated within the Medieval tradition. It will be argued that both the individual's future on earth and the collectively operating eschatological future induced medieval Christians to activity based on experience and predictability in matters of everyday life, or on prophecy and faith in postmortal issues. Here the chronotopicity of the future in a religious perspective might foster a better understanding of the medieval practices and agency which engendered the future for which they were meant to provide." (author's abstract)

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Two decades later, the conceptual problems of the term "agency" identified by Walter Johnson remain largely unresolved, in particular the analytic inhibitions that follow from what the historian Lynn Thomas has described as agency-as-argument. Taking the case of the colonial Zimbabwean chief Munhuwepayi Mangwende as a reference point, this essay argues that the microhistorical tracing of agency as meaning rather than causality is what may permit us to move past the "safe harbor" of agency-as-argument and begin to understand the full range of what people have chosen to do in the past—and to interact more effectively with what they might yet choose to do in the present.

Working with an older person involves different professionals and domains of knowledge. This study examines narratives of the members of a multiprofessional team and an older patient in the context of hospital rehabilitation. Methodologically it draws on social constructionism and the membership categorisation device (MCD). The aim is to show how the situational context, the rehabilitation team, and the agency of its members and the patient get constructed in the accounts of the interviewees. The analysis shows that the social order in hospital rehabilitation includes patterns of action that favour physical, i.e. medical, expertise. The members of the team studied constructed their team as a geriatric one in their accounts. Neither the social worker nor the patients were constructed as active agents in the core of multiprofessional working. The context of health care and the 'quest for certainty' challenge social work to find alternative ways of seeing the truths in a patient's life and to negotiate the solutions in multiprofessional working.

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