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8 - Individual Realization?

Rethinking Subjectivity in Economics

from Part III - Value and Subjectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

John B. Davis
Affiliation:
Marquette University, Wisconsin and Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Chapter 8 takes up what the subjectivity of socially embedded individuals involves. On the externalist view of individual autonomy, subjectivity is an embodied subjectivity because institutions and social relationships affect people’s choices and actions. To explain this idea, the chapter reviews the situated cognition and the embodied and distributed cognition literatures in cognitive science and psychology to explain the connection between social embeddedness and subjectivity. It then returns to the capability conception of individuals and what individual and personal identity involves. Using a two-level view of people’s capabilities, it argues that socially embedded individuals develop first-order capabilities regarding specific kinds of things that they can be and do and also a second-order self-concept or self-narrative capabilities in conjunction with one another, and rely on the latter to evaluate themselves in relation to their capability development. This discussion draws on the thinking of developmental psychologist Carl Rogers. How, and the extent to which, this understanding of individuals allows us to explain them as distinct and re-identifiable individuals closes the chapter.

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Identity, Capabilities, and Changing Economics
Reflexive, Adaptive, Socially Embedded Individuals
, pp. 192 - 218
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Individual Realization?
  • John B. Davis, Marquette University, Wisconsin and Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book: Identity, Capabilities, and Changing Economics
  • Online publication: 11 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438247.012
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  • John B. Davis, Marquette University, Wisconsin and Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book: Identity, Capabilities, and Changing Economics
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438247.012
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  • Individual Realization?
  • John B. Davis, Marquette University, Wisconsin and Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book: Identity, Capabilities, and Changing Economics
  • Online publication: 11 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438247.012
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