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Commonplace Book:

Amélie Rorty

Brief Bio: Belgian-born American philosopher

Lived: 1932-2020

For further info: en.wikipedia.org

Quotes:

“The sort of organisms that interpret and modify their agency”

Humans are just the sort of organisms that interpret and modify their agency through their conception of themselves. This is a complicated biological fact about us.

1976 from the book The Identities of Persons

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