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Area of Science:

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • The subjective experience of freedom is central to human self-understanding.
  • Agency, the capacity to act on desires, is often equated with this feeling of freedom.
  • Understanding the psychological mechanisms behind the loss and gain of this subjective freedom is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the reasons behind the intermittent experience of lacking freedom.
  • To propose a dynamic theory of agency and subjective freedom.
  • To investigate the role of reasoning and self-reflection in shaping our sense of freedom.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of agency and subjective freedom.
  • Development of a dynamic process theory of agency.
  • Examination of the interplay between desire, reason, and self-reflection.

Main Results:

  • Agency is defined as the ability to pursue desires, contingent on the capacity for reason.
  • Reason is a double-edged sword, enabling agency but also facilitating alienation from desires and actions.
  • Subjective freedom fluctuates through a process of encountering constraints, reflection, and retrospective reconstruction.

Conclusions:

  • Our experience of freedom is not constant but a dynamic process influenced by our capacity for reason and self-reflection.
  • Encountering constraints and reflecting on them can diminish our sense of freedom.
  • Regaining the experience of freedom involves a retrospective reconstruction or forgetting of these constraints.