Omissions are puzzling, and theyraise myriad questions for many areas of philosophy. In contrast, omissions ofomissions are not usually taken to be very puzzling since they are oftenthought to just be a fancy way of describing ordinary “positive” events, statesof affairs, or actions. This paper contends that – as far as agency isconcerned – at least some omissions of omissions are omissions, not actions. First,this paper highlights how our actions are accompanied by many first-orderomissions - i.e., omissions to act – and that there already are many strongreasons to think that at least some of these first-order omissions are agentiallydistinct from simultaneous actions and from other first-order omissions. Itthen argues that our actions and first-order omissions are also accompanied byhigher-order omissions – i.e., omissions to omit to act – and that higher-orderomissions are distinct from actions and first-order omissions for similarreasons. Higher-order omissions also illuminate a more holistic picture of agency,which involves recognizing that our exercises of agency at a moment in timeinclude all of our overlapping behaviors – our actions, first-order omissions,and higher-order omissions. This paper concludes by exploring the impacts ofhigher-order omissions.

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高阶遗漏和代理的堆叠视图

遗漏令人费解，它们对哲学的许多领域提出了无数问题。相比之下，遗漏通常不会被认为非常令人费解，因为它们通常被认为只是描述普通“积极”事件、事态或行动的一种奇特方式。本文认为，就代理而言，至少有一些遗漏是遗漏，而不是行动。首先，本文强调了我们的行动如何伴随着许多一阶遗漏（即行动的遗漏），并且已经有许多强有力的理由认为，至少其中一些一阶遗漏在行为上与同时发生的行动和其他一阶遗漏有所不同。 - 订单遗漏。然后，它认为我们的行动和一阶不作为也伴随着更高阶的不作为——即，不采取行动的不作为——并且出于类似的原因，更高阶的不作为与行动和一阶不作为是不同的。高阶遗漏还阐明了更全面的能动性图景，这涉及到认识到我们在某一时刻对能动性的行使包括我们所有重叠的行为——我们的行动、一阶遗漏和高阶遗漏。本文最后探讨了高阶遗漏的影响。