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    Comments on Janice Breidenbach’s Essay (2018) "Action, Agency, and Substance Causation"
    Comments on Janice Breidenbach’s Essay (2018) "Action, Agency, and Substance Causation"
    Comments on Janice Breidenbach’s Essay (2018) "Action, Agency, and Substance Causation"
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    Comments on Janice Breidenbach’s Essay (2018) "Action, Agency, and Substance Causation"

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    Janice Breidenbach publishes chapter 10 in a recent book, Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, edited by William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons and Nicholas Teh (2018, Routledge, pages 236-260). The title is “Action, Agency and Substance Causation”.
    Action does not necessitate agency, even though we think that it does. Our attitude could be some mental adaptation. But, even with that point of view, the question remains, "What does action and agency hold in common?"
    The title suggests an answer.
    These comments use the category-based nested form and other relational models developed within the tradition of C. S. Peirce.

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      Comments on Janice Breidenbach’s Essay (2018) "Action, Agency, and Substance Causation" - Razie Mah

      Comments on Janice Breidenbach’s Essay (2018) Action, Animacy, and Substance Causality

      By Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords.com

      2020

      Notes on Text

      This work comments on an article by Janice Chik Breidenbach, appearing in 2018 as chapter 10 of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (edited by William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons and Nicholas Teh, Routledge, pages 235-260). The title is Action, Agency and Substance Causation. My goal is to comment on this work using the category-based nested form and other relational models within the tradition of Charles Peirce.

      ‘Words that belong together’ are denoted by single quotes or italics.

      Prerequisites: A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction

      Recommended: Comments on Jacques Maritain’s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy, Comments on Marco Stango’s Essay (2017) Understanding Hylomorphic Dualism, Comments on Daniel De Haan’s Essay (2018) Hylomorphism and the New Mechanist Philosophy

      Table of Contents

      Cayenna’s Story

      Animals and Agents

      The Structure of Causal Action

      Finding the Agent

      Cayenna’s Story

      0001 Janice Breidenbach addresses the issue of agent.

      Agents have agency (or is it urgency?) which need not evoke the supernatural realm.

      0002 For example, I have a note. It goes like this.

      "I am Cayenna. I am 13 years old. I beat up the 16 year old boy down the street for calling me 'hot'. My sisters loved it. But, my parents are now shipping me off to Ohio, for a

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