Embodied Rational Agency

Yannig Luthra
Philosophy
UC Los Angeles

This dissertation aims to make progress in understanding what it is to be an embodied rational agent. Luthra argues that human agency consists not just in our rational capacities for thought and understanding, but also in non-rational capacities, like our physical ability to put one foot in front of the other and walk. Luthra develops the further idea that we can better understand the nature of practical reason itself by reflecting on the way it depends on non-rational aspects of human agency.