Reductionists about agency maintain that an agent's causing something is reducible to states and events involving the agent causing something. Some worry that reductionism cannot accommodate robust forms of agency, such as self-determination. One reductionist answer to this worry, which I call ‘identification reductionism,’ contends that self-governing agents are identified with certain attitudes, and so these attitudes causing a decision count as the agent's self-determining the decision. I argue that a prominent species of identification reductionism developed by Harry Frankfurt, Agnieszka Jaworska, Jeffrey Seidman, and David Shoemaker – according to which an agent is identified with his (deepest) cares – is inadequate.

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关心、认同和代理减少主义

关于代理的还原论者认为，代理引起某事可还原为涉及该代理引起某事的状态和事件。有些人担心还原论不能适应强大的代理形式，例如自决。对此担忧的一个还原论者的回答，我称之为“认同还原论”，认为自治代理被认同为某些态度，因此这些导致决策的态度被视为代理的自我决定决策。我认为，由 Harry Frankfurt、Agnieszka Jaworska、Jeffrey Seidman 和 David Shoemaker 开发的一种突出的认同还原论——根据这种观点，代理人被认同为他（最深的）关心——是不够的。