Introduction Chapter 1: Philosophical Assumptions Section 1: Self-knowledge and the Assumption of Agency Chapter 2: Problem of Other Minds: the importance of first-order concepts Chapter 3: What it Means to be Minded: intentionality Chapter 4: Reasons and Causes Chapter 5: Preliminary Statements About Agency Section 2: Interaction, Maintenance of Agency and the Unexplained Act Chapter 6: The Ego Agent and Structure Chapter 7: Maintenance of Agency: first order concepts through interaction Chapter 8: Satisfying the Conditions of Agency: using the action-mind chain Chapter 9: The Unexplained Act: arriving at the evinced agent Section 3: Technology as Agent Chapter 10: Technology as Evinced Agent: disappearing the machine Chapter 11: Disappearing the Machine into the Ego Agent: 3D interaction and its implications for agency and reality Conclusion
Biography
Kate Forbes-Pitt left a career in IT to read Sociology at the London School of Economics before earning her PhD in Philosophy of Social Science at Lancaster University. Kate currently holds a post-doctoral position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, pursuing a philosophy of virtual worlds.
'...succeeds in producing a firm argument that leads towards a step that is long overdue: to incorporate the presence of intelligent, ‘behaving’ machines directly into theories of the social (and human) sciences.'
-Kathrine Elizabeth Anker in the Journal of Critical Realism, vol 11 no 4
