The role of identity in agent design

This year AAMAS conference introduced a perspective track for "papers that analyze in some way the agent research community". The aim of this track is to understand what the trends are in agent research and foresee possible future directions. Instead of looking at where the agent community is going in an emergent way analyzing numerical trends, with this article we want to suggest where agent research could go but is not yet going. We are of the opinion that in the agent research community most of the current trends originate from the translation of particular concepts -- mostly from analytic philosophy -- which are only a particular western way to look at philosophy and agents. With this article we want to suggest that other paths originating from philosophy could be taken into account in order to create different directions in agent design.