Full Idea
My conclusion is that wherever you can identify causal processes that are sensitive to the recommendations of systems of justification, there you have found agency.
Gist of Idea
Agency is causal processes that are sensitive to justification
Source
Rowland Stout (Action [2005], 9b 'Conclusion')
Book Reference
Stout,Rowland: 'Action' [Acumen 2005], p.154
A Reaction
[the last paragraph of his book] Justification seems an awfully grand notion for a bee pollinating a flower, and I don't see human action as profoundly different. A reason might be a bad justification, but it might not even aspire to be a justification.