Sentence examples for psychological agents from inspiring English sources

Music's emotional expressivity is a philosophical problem since the paradigm expressers of emotions are psychological agents, who have emotions to express.

In fact, the conception of agency that we draw on is compatible with recognizing that the vast majority of biological agents are not psychological agents at all.

Those who reject teleomentalism typically seek naturalistic truth conditions for teleological claims in biology that do not refer to the intentions, goals, or purposes of psychological agents.

Neither pieces of music, nor performances of them, are psychological agents, thus it is puzzling that such things could be said to express emotions.

This reflects Kennedy's worry when he claims that the following argument for attributing mental properties to animals rests on a false dichotomy: either animals are stimulus-response machines, or they are agents with beliefs and desires; since animals are not stimulus-response machines, they must be psychological agents (Kennedy 1992).

We recognize, however, that our findings may point to another more definable psychological agent related to stress in the workplace.

Actions have explanatory priority, but actions are the starting point of an argument used to determine the proper structure of an agent's psychology: that is, we ask what psychological structure an agent must have in place for him to be able to author actions.

Up until now the theories of autonomy surveyed have treated autonomy as a psychological feature of agents.

Dialogical approaches invoke agents' psychological states, such as the sense of one's own answerability, although they analyze these states as related to external interpersonal conditions.

On this front, arguably the most pressing question, however, is about the durability of psychological interventions once agents leave the lab.

This account of local autonomy is constitutively relational because no matter how robust an agents' psychological capacities, if the relevant external conditions do not obtain at a time, it is not possible for the agent's preference at that time to be autonomous.