Chapter 1 Agency: A Historical Perspective

Chapter 2 The Providence of Associated Minds: Agency in the Thought of Giambattista Vico and the Origins of Social and Cultural Psychology

Chapter 3 Historical Leads for Theory Construction in Psychology

Chapter 4 Neurobiological Perspectives on Agency: Ten Axioms and Ten Propositions

Chapter 6 A Grand Synthesis: Aided by Considering Systems 1 and 2 and Incentive Motivation

Chapter 7 The Neuroscience of Agency and Free Will

Chapter 8 Starting Points for Agency Research

Chapter 9 Neurobiology of Agency: “Conatograms” and the Ghost in the Machine?

Chapter 10 The Relational Basis of Agency: An Integrated Psychological/Theological Approach

Chapter 11 Agency and Self-Experience: The Religious Function of the Psyche

Chapter 12 Psychology’s Purgatory: Situating the Theoretical Construction of Agency

Chapter 13 Agency enabled by the Psyche: Explorations using the Transdisciplinary Philosophy-of-Science Paradigm for Research on Individuals

Chapter 14 Agency and Creativity in the Midst of Social Change

Chapter 15 From Individual Agency to Co-agency

Chapter 16 The Explanatory Power of Agency