Explicating Agency: The Case of Visual Attention

Abstract How do individuals guide their activities towards some goal? Harry Frankfurt once identified the task of explaining guidance as central problem in action theory. An explanation has proved to be elusive, however. In this paper, I show how we can marshal empirical research make explanatory progress. contend that human agents have a primitive capacity visual attention, and is actually constituted by sub-individual psychological control-system: executive system. thus illustrate explain exercises individual-level appeal its constitution. This opens up new avenue for explicating agency.