Philosophy about my agency
Research for what it means to have my agency
To be an agent is to have agency.
To have agency is to be able to exercise the capacity to act.
To act, means to have intentionality.
To have intentionality, means to be in a causal relation between your mental state and certain events.
This is a page dedicated to the ongoing research about the notion of Stefs agency. What does it mean to be me? What defines me as an agent? What does it say about my mental state and events that I relate to?
Sharing this with the public is about my mental state becoming self-reflexive. Now, the subject is also an object. An object that, like an event, can be interacted with through causal relation of the mental states of myself and other readers.
Essays
2026Listening as a Virtue for the Organization of the Future
Why quiet quitting might have less to do with burnout than with a lack of listening — and what Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics has to say about it.
the need for a new social contract
Pieter Omtzigt's New Social Contract party, read through Plato, Hobbes and Rawls — and what it would actually mean to call a social contract 'new'.
five reasons why albert camus wasn't an absurdist
Camus gets called an absurdist constantly — even by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. A case for why that label betrays exactly what his philosophy is trying to do.