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Beyond Self-goal Choice: Sen's Analysis of Commitment and The Role of Shared Desires

In Fabienne Peter (ed.), rationality and commitment. Oxford University Press USA (2007)

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  1. Commitment as Motivation: Amartya Sen’s Theory of Agency and the Explanation of Behavior.Ann E. Cudd - 2014 - Economics and Philosophy 30 (1):35-56.
    This paper presents Sen's theory of agency, focusing on the role of commitment in this theory as both problematic and potentially illuminating. His account of some commitments as goal-displacing gives rise to a dilemma given the standard philosophical theory of agency.Eithercommitment-motivated actions are externally motivated, in which case they are not expressions of agency,orsuch actions are internally motivated, in which case the commitment is not goal-displacing. I resolve this dilemma and accommodate his view of commitment as motivation by developing a (...)
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