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Episode 58: Options and Agency with John Maier

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What Is an Option?

You've argued that various Adgentive Modalities can be understood in terms of agents' options. So could you say a little bit about what an option is as you understand it and how this basic notion can be used to build accounts of, say, abilities or other Adgentive modalities? Yeah, definitely. For me, it's a primitive notion. It's one of the basic kind of primitive notions and philosophies. There's not going to be an analysis or a reductive definition of it. That's a big idea for me. But it's the things that are up to you, the things that you can do straight away,. The things thatyou can do right now,

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