The required connection with agency is manifested in the ways in which reasoning and deliberation are active activities ; and we can take responsibility for how well we deliberate and reason.
I fumbled in my pockets for cigarettes, listened to fragments of stories: doctors, operations, mastectomies, discussions, different points of view, deliberations, the activities of a Clara I couldn't know or touch or help, not now.
By joining the convention, the United States would greatly strengthen its ability to influence deliberations involving activities by Russia and other nations to extend their continental boundaries, as well as countless other national security and economic decisions.
In general, reflective discussions had four levels of deliberation (technical listing of activities, description of activities, analytic examination of activities and reflection on the bases for activities).
The law requires the president to "take all such steps as may be necessary to assure that the activities, deliberations, decisions and policies that reflect the performance of his constitutional, statutory or other official or ceremonial duties are adequately documented … and maintained as presidential records".
Practical reason's central activity is deliberation about what to do.
Consider now the suggestion that deliberation is skilled mental activity.
On this suggestion, deliberation is viewed as activity initiated, guided and sustained by a relevant intention: the intention to decide what to do.
I have argued that an exercise of direct control over decisions is an extension of the skilled mental activity of deliberation, necessarily involves attention, and is initiated in response to attention-mediated indication that terminating deliberation by forming some intention is appropriate.
In what follows, I will argue that the action of deciding is related in an important way to the activities that constitute practical deliberation (henceforth: deliberation).
