Mentor: Facundo Alonso, Ph.D.

To be autonomous means to govern oneself, but what does this phenomenon consist in? What does self-governance have to do with our identity?

Philosophers in philosophy of action have posited various theories of self-governance; however, all such accounts run into problems, often due to perverse or arbitrary actions. My research project is to provide a story of autonomous agency that overcomes these difficulties while exploring interrelated concepts of the self and personal identity.

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