The Experience of Agency
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness July 9, 2020 Myrto Mylopoulos, Joshua Shepherd
This chapter examines the nature and sources of agentive phenomenology—the experiences associated with intentional actions. It reviews pioneering work from the early 1980s in psychology and neuroscience that motivates much current research. The discussion covers the scope of these experiences, their relationship to other types of experiences, how best to characterize different aspects, and the function of various agentive experiences.