Presenter Dr. Federica Berdini, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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Title Agency and Authorship: Towards a Socially Situated, Interactionist View

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.