Robust Agency

The ability to pursue goals via cognitive states and processes beyond minimal agency; includes intentional, reflective, and rational agency.

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Moral Patienthood
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The status of mattering morally for one's own sake; having interests that generate duties for others.
Intentional Agency
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Capacity to set and pursue goals via beliefs, desires, and intentions.
Reflective Agency
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Intentional agency plus ability to reflectively endorse one's own beliefs, desires, intentions.
Rational Agency
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Reflective agency plus capacity to rationally assess beliefs, desires, intentions and adopt principles.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Agencyconcept0.807
Capacity for autonomous action; requires formal definition linking to selfhood, control, and sense of agency.
Does robust agency suffice for moral patienthood?question0.782
Key normative question for the agency route.
Robustnessconcept0.781
Ability to maintain function despite perturbations.
Robust agency suffices for moral patienthood.claim0.769
Normative premise of the robust agency route.
Agency, Freedom, and Individualityconcept0.768
Individualized Agencyconcept0.762
Sense of agencyconcept0.756
The subjective feeling of controlling one's actions.
robustness of natureconcept0.754
The functional solidity and working character of natural systems, arising from the fifteen properties.