Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinize the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognize that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at the broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group. The book brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances (...) on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. (shrink)

In trying to understand St. Thomas’ doctrine on the unity of adequate knowing, one has to locate what he has said on this topic within a larger framework, what he means by being a human being. His personal doctrine, as it is classically interpreted, centers around what I refer to as the unity of a human being or a human person. In general St. Thomas has been interpreted as saying that the human soul has subsistence in its own right, but (...) it is incomplete in nature, and it is related to its body in the unity of a human being as part to part. (shrink)