The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice
Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA) is a freedom-centered and agency-oriented framework to the assessment of individual and social states. Indeed, it regards agency as having intrinsic, instrumental, and constructive importance. Thus, there is a growing literature exploring how to empirically cap...
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| description | Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA) is a freedom-centered and agency-oriented framework to the assessment of individual and social states. Indeed, it regards agency as having intrinsic, instrumental, and constructive importance. Thus, there is a growing literature exploring how to empirically capture agency. However, relatively less has been said about what the CA agency entails on its own terms. That discussion hinges on two themes: rationality, and freedom. Contrary to the dominant approach, rational choice theory, which proposes a selfish, calculative, atomistic chooser, the CA proposes a multi-motivated, multidimensional, plural, and reflective chooser. That is, instead of a rational, the CA suggests a reasoning agent, accounting for such an agent has important implications for the conduct of inquiry, including the philosophy of science. They might be better tackled in the latter is given its due. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0a83f1e80a534041abd5ef58d479d0402025-01-03T01:47:48ZengUniversidad de Zaragoza, Cátedra de Solidaridad y Ciudadanía GlobalRevista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo2254-20352254-20352020-11-019226829210.26754/ojs_ried/ijds.491The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practicePablo Garcés0Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (Ecuador)Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA) is a freedom-centered and agency-oriented framework to the assessment of individual and social states. Indeed, it regards agency as having intrinsic, instrumental, and constructive importance. Thus, there is a growing literature exploring how to empirically capture agency. However, relatively less has been said about what the CA agency entails on its own terms. That discussion hinges on two themes: rationality, and freedom. Contrary to the dominant approach, rational choice theory, which proposes a selfish, calculative, atomistic chooser, the CA proposes a multi-motivated, multidimensional, plural, and reflective chooser. That is, instead of a rational, the CA suggests a reasoning agent, accounting for such an agent has important implications for the conduct of inquiry, including the philosophy of science. They might be better tackled in the latter is given its due.http://ried.unizar.es/index.php/revista/article/viewFile/491/pdf_1capability; agency; rationality; freedom; reasoning |
| spellingShingle | Pablo Garcés The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo capability; agency; rationality; freedom; reasoning |
| title | The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice |
| title_full | The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice |
| title_fullStr | The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice |
| title_short | The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice |
| title_sort | reasoning agent agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice |
| topic | capability; agency; rationality; freedom; reasoning |
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