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Zur Interpretation in der mikrosoziologischen und sozialpsychologischen Wissenschaftsforschung
(1995)
Zum Subjekt emanzipatorischer Projekte : die Aufklärung als geschichtsphilosophisches Konzept
(1998)
Zum Problem der Grenze
(1995)
Zukunft durch Grenzen
(1993)
Why animals can't act
(2009)
Given the many marvelous things animals can do and moreover the success we have in employing the intentional stance towards animals, it seems to be almost unthinkable to say that animals could not act at all. Nonetheless, this is exactly what I argue for. I claim that strictly speaking there is no animal action, only behaviour. I defend this claim in three steps. Firstly, I recapitulate some of the weighty grounds that speak in favour of animal agency. Secondly, I explain why I still doubt that animals act. The argument is that the account of agency that I take to be the most attractive one entails that animals can't act. Since this account of agency is non-standard, I spend the bulk of the paper with providing a sketch of what, according to it, actions are. Finally, I explain why it is still so natural and promising to regard animals as agents, although in fact they aren't. As one might put it: of course they act, only strictly speaking they don't.
Vorwort
(2006)
Vorwort
(1995)
Vorbemerkung der Herausgeber
(2006)
Von der Ironie der Politik zur Politik der Ironie : eine Notiz zum Prozess liberaler Demokratie
(2003)
Von der Ausnahmesituation der Intellektuellen : ostdeutsche Diskurse und die Weimarer Republik
(1996)
Variationen zum Verhältnis von Geist und Macht : ostdeutsche Diskurse und die Weimarer Republik
(1996)
Unternehmenskultur - ein Kulturunternehmen? : Kultur, Werte und Selbstorganisation in Unternehmen
(1996)
Two Kinds of Pratice : on the relation between social discipline and the aesthetics of existence
(2003)
Tugend und Respekt
(2004)