Helen Steward
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1007202 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Helen Steward |
| NOMBRES | Helen |
| APELLIDO | Steward |
| FIRMA | STEWARD H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1654-577X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The role of teacher agency in realising EdTech 's potential to reduce teacher workload and improve teacher retention
This article considers how EdTech platform design and EdTech policy implementation in schools combine to contribute to rather than alleviate teachers' workload, constraining professional agency in ways which may contribute to teachers' dissatisfaction and the current teacher retention crisis. Workload has been cited as a leading reason for teachers leaving the profession. Successive OECD Teaching and International Learning Surveys (TALIS) identif…
Bradley's Regress and a Problem in Action Theory
There is a problem which often arises during the course of various discussions in action theory and related fields about how exactly we are to characterise the relation which obtains between an agent and her (token) actions. An agent is a particular individual; it is often assumed that any token action of hers must be another.1 But what is the relation between these two particulars, when the agent is the agent of the action in question? Obviously…
Strawsonian Optimism for Libertarians
In this paper, I defend the idea that libertarians may be “Strawsonian Optimists”—that is to say, that they may consistently hold that even if determinism is true, there need be no threat of any kind to the concepts and practices constituting our commitments to moral responsibility and personhood. My defence of this position takes place in the context of John Fischer’s attempt to defend what I call the “Invulnerability Intuition”—that is to say, …
Frankfurt cases, alternative possibilities and agency as a two-way power
In this paper, I argue that having ‘leeway’ is part and parcel of what it is to be the agential source of an action, so that embracing source incompatibilism does not, by itself, absolve the incompatibilist of the need to find Frankfurtian agents to be possessors of alternate possibilities. I offer a response to Frankfurt-style counterexamples to the Principle of Alternate Possibilities, based on the idea that Frankfurt's Jones exercises the two-…
What does causality have to do with necessity
In her ‘Causality and Determination’, Anscombe argues for the strong thesis that despite centuries of philosophical assumption to the contrary, the supposition that causality and necessity have something essential to do with one another is baseless. In this paper, I assess Anscombe’s arguments and endorse her conclusion. I then attempt to argue that her arguments remain highly relevant today, despite the fact that most popular general views of ca…
Libertarianism in disguise
This paper argues that the position on free will which is defended in ‘Freedom: An Impossible Reality’ is not, as Tallis claims, a compatibilist view, but actually a version of libertarianism. While endorsing many aspects of that libertarian view itself, the paper raises questions about how one of the central arguments for Tallis’s view is supposed to work, and queries whether it really follows from the fact that we need to stand apart from natur…
Responses
As the author of A Metaphysics for Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), I respond to each of the preceding eight papers in this Special Issue.
Actions as Processes
A Metaphysics for Freedom
Steward argues that determinism is incompatible with agency itself - not only the special human variety of agency, but also powers which can be accorded to animal agents. She offers a non-dualistic version of libertarianism, rooted in a conception of what biological forms of organisation might make possible in the way of freedom
Understanding ‘Because’
Do actions occur inside the body
The Ontology of Mind
Papineau's Physicalism
In his introduction to Philosophical Naturalism, Papineau mentions that he had intended, at one time, to call book Philosophical Physicalism. In end, he writes, he rejected that title, partly for fear that term might have suggested commitment to a metaphysical position tied closely to ontology and categories dictated by current physics, a commitment he is anxious not to incur; and partly because concerns of book as a whole are wider than would ha…
Cartographic Generalisation Some Concepts and Explanation
A Metaphysics for Freedom
Steward argues that determinism is incompatible with agency itself - not only the special human variety of agency, but also powers which can be accorded to animal agents. She offers a non-dualistic version of libertarianism, rooted in a conception of what biological forms of organisation might make possible in the way of freedom
Actions as Processes
What does causality have to do with necessity
In her ‘Causality and Determination’, Anscombe argues for the strong thesis that despite centuries of philosophical assumption to the contrary, the supposition that causality and necessity have something essential to do with one another is baseless. In this paper, I assess Anscombe’s arguments and endorse her conclusion. I then attempt to argue that her arguments remain highly relevant today, despite the fact that most popular general views of ca…
Libertarianism in disguise
This paper argues that the position on free will which is defended in ‘Freedom: An Impossible Reality’ is not, as Tallis claims, a compatibilist view, but actually a version of libertarianism. While endorsing many aspects of that libertarian view itself, the paper raises questions about how one of the central arguments for Tallis’s view is supposed to work, and queries whether it really follows from the fact that we need to stand apart from natur…
Do actions occur inside the body
Cartographic Generalisation Some Concepts and Explanation
Papineau's Physicalism
In his introduction to Philosophical Naturalism, Papineau mentions that he had intended, at one time, to call book Philosophical Physicalism. In end, he writes, he rejected that title, partly for fear that term might have suggested commitment to a metaphysical position tied closely to ontology and categories dictated by current physics, a commitment he is anxious not to incur; and partly because concerns of book as a whole are wider than would ha…
The Ontology of Mind
Do actions occur inside the body
Understanding ‘Because’
Actions as Processes
A Metaphysics for Freedom
Steward argues that determinism is incompatible with agency itself - not only the special human variety of agency, but also powers which can be accorded to animal agents. She offers a non-dualistic version of libertarianism, rooted in a conception of what biological forms of organisation might make possible in the way of freedom
Responses
As the author of A Metaphysics for Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), I respond to each of the preceding eight papers in this Special Issue.
Frankfurt cases, alternative possibilities and agency as a two-way power
In this paper, I argue that having ‘leeway’ is part and parcel of what it is to be the agential source of an action, so that embracing source incompatibilism does not, by itself, absolve the incompatibilist of the need to find Frankfurtian agents to be possessors of alternate possibilities. I offer a response to Frankfurt-style counterexamples to the Principle of Alternate Possibilities, based on the idea that Frankfurt's Jones exercises the two-…
What does causality have to do with necessity
In her ‘Causality and Determination’, Anscombe argues for the strong thesis that despite centuries of philosophical assumption to the contrary, the supposition that causality and necessity have something essential to do with one another is baseless. In this paper, I assess Anscombe’s arguments and endorse her conclusion. I then attempt to argue that her arguments remain highly relevant today, despite the fact that most popular general views of ca…
Libertarianism in disguise
This paper argues that the position on free will which is defended in ‘Freedom: An Impossible Reality’ is not, as Tallis claims, a compatibilist view, but actually a version of libertarianism. While endorsing many aspects of that libertarian view itself, the paper raises questions about how one of the central arguments for Tallis’s view is supposed to work, and queries whether it really follows from the fact that we need to stand apart from natur…
Bradley's Regress and a Problem in Action Theory
There is a problem which often arises during the course of various discussions in action theory and related fields about how exactly we are to characterise the relation which obtains between an agent and her (token) actions. An agent is a particular individual; it is often assumed that any token action of hers must be another.1 But what is the relation between these two particulars, when the agent is the agent of the action in question? Obviously…
Strawsonian Optimism for Libertarians
In this paper, I defend the idea that libertarians may be “Strawsonian Optimists”—that is to say, that they may consistently hold that even if determinism is true, there need be no threat of any kind to the concepts and practices constituting our commitments to moral responsibility and personhood. My defence of this position takes place in the context of John Fischer’s attempt to defend what I call the “Invulnerability Intuition”—that is to say, …
The role of teacher agency in realising EdTech 's potential to reduce teacher workload and improve teacher retention
This article considers how EdTech platform design and EdTech policy implementation in schools combine to contribute to rather than alleviate teachers' workload, constraining professional agency in ways which may contribute to teachers' dissatisfaction and the current teacher retention crisis. Workload has been cited as a leading reason for teachers leaving the profession. Successive OECD Teaching and International Learning Surveys (TALIS) identif…
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