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Introduction ; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; About the Authors; Part I; Historical backgrounds on agency; Chapter-1; Agency: A Historical Perspective; 1.1 Delineating Agency; 1.2 Volition and Psychological Agency; 1.3 The Insanity Defence: Debate on Agency Exemplified?; 1.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter-2; The Providence of Associated Minds: Agency in the Thought of Giambattista Vico and the Origins of Social and Cultural Psychology; 2.1 The New Science; 2.2 Homo Faber; 2.2.1 Imaginative Function; 2.2.2 Empirical and Rational; 2.2.3 Historical and Collective Dimensions
2.2.4 Language2.3 Cattaneo, Wundt, and the Origins of Social Psychology; 2.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter-3; Historical Leads for Theory Construction in Psychology; 3.1 History of Psychology is the Tool for the Future of Theory Building; 3.2 Where Agency Begins; 3.3 Agency is a Temporally Located Concept; 3.4 What Renewed Focus on Agency Might Accomplish; References; Part II; Neurosciences look at Agency; Chapter-4; Neurobiological Perspectives on Agency: Ten Axioms and Ten Propositions; 4.1 Neural Basis of Agency; 4.2 Axioms Versus Propositions; 4.3 Agency Axioms
A1. Agency Arises When a Nervous System Has a Sense of Self, Which May or Not be Conscious. Humans Have a Dual Sense of Self, Unconscious and ConsciousA2. Agency In Primitive Animals Is Caused By Central Pattern Generators, Remnants of Which Remain In Higher Animals; A3. Agency Emerges From Neural Processing; A4. The Currency of Information Processing in the Brain is the Pattern and Timing of Nerve Impulses (Circuit Impulse Patterns). Therefore, the Elements of Agency Must Arise From Biological Computations That Change Such Patterns
A5. Agency Arises Out of the Multiple Nonlinear Deterministic Processes of the Nervous SystemA6. Behavior is Not Just the Response to Stimuli. Though the Most Obvious Face of Agency, Behavior is the End Product of the Antecedent Elements of Agency; A7. Neural Correlates of Agency are Necessary But Not Sufficient for Explaining the Various Elements of Agency; A8. Initiating Agency, Such as Deciding What to Do, Typically Requires Assessment of Anticipated Positive And Negative Consequences And Their Reward Value
A9. Consciousness, Especially Human Consciousness, Raises the Level of Agency Complexity to a New LevelA10. The Human Brain Contains a Distinct Network that Serves as its Executive Agent; 4.4 Propositions; P1. The Correlates and Causes of All Elements of Agency are Discoverable and Can be Found in CIPs; P2. Decisions to Act Are Not Point Events But a Process of Multiple Stages. the Motor Act Itself Is Just the End Product of Antecedent Processing Elsewhere; P3. Decisions Are Made by Interacting And Competing Neuronal Populations or By Guided Gating Processes
2.2.4 Language2.3 Cattaneo, Wundt, and the Origins of Social Psychology; 2.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter-3; Historical Leads for Theory Construction in Psychology; 3.1 History of Psychology is the Tool for the Future of Theory Building; 3.2 Where Agency Begins; 3.3 Agency is a Temporally Located Concept; 3.4 What Renewed Focus on Agency Might Accomplish; References; Part II; Neurosciences look at Agency; Chapter-4; Neurobiological Perspectives on Agency: Ten Axioms and Ten Propositions; 4.1 Neural Basis of Agency; 4.2 Axioms Versus Propositions; 4.3 Agency Axioms
A1. Agency Arises When a Nervous System Has a Sense of Self, Which May or Not be Conscious. Humans Have a Dual Sense of Self, Unconscious and ConsciousA2. Agency In Primitive Animals Is Caused By Central Pattern Generators, Remnants of Which Remain In Higher Animals; A3. Agency Emerges From Neural Processing; A4. The Currency of Information Processing in the Brain is the Pattern and Timing of Nerve Impulses (Circuit Impulse Patterns). Therefore, the Elements of Agency Must Arise From Biological Computations That Change Such Patterns
A5. Agency Arises Out of the Multiple Nonlinear Deterministic Processes of the Nervous SystemA6. Behavior is Not Just the Response to Stimuli. Though the Most Obvious Face of Agency, Behavior is the End Product of the Antecedent Elements of Agency; A7. Neural Correlates of Agency are Necessary But Not Sufficient for Explaining the Various Elements of Agency; A8. Initiating Agency, Such as Deciding What to Do, Typically Requires Assessment of Anticipated Positive And Negative Consequences And Their Reward Value
A9. Consciousness, Especially Human Consciousness, Raises the Level of Agency Complexity to a New LevelA10. The Human Brain Contains a Distinct Network that Serves as its Executive Agent; 4.4 Propositions; P1. The Correlates and Causes of All Elements of Agency are Discoverable and Can be Found in CIPs; P2. Decisions to Act Are Not Point Events But a Process of Multiple Stages. the Motor Act Itself Is Just the End Product of Antecedent Processing Elsewhere; P3. Decisions Are Made by Interacting And Competing Neuronal Populations or By Guided Gating Processes