Dynamics in Action
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What is the difference between a wink and a blink? The answer is important not only to philosophers of mind, for significant moral and legal consequences rest on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior. However, "action theory"--the branch of philosophy that has traditionally articulated the boundaries between action and non-action, and between voluntary and involuntary behavior--has been unable to account for the difference.
Dynamics in Action
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Alicia Juarrero argues that a mistaken, 350-year-old model of cause and explanation--one that takes all causes to be of the push-pull, efficient cause sort, and all explanation to be prooflike--underlies contemporary theories of action. Juarrero then proposes a new framework for conceptualizing causes based on complex adaptive systems. Thinking of causes as dynamical constraints makes bottom-up and top-down causal relations, including those involving intentional causes, suddenly tractable. A different logic for explaining actions--as historical narrative, not inference--follows if one adopts this novel approach to long-standing questions of action and responsibility.
Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780262600477
- Binding
- Paperback
- Authors
- Alicia Juarrero
- Publisher
- Bradford Book
- Published Date
- January 25, 2002
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 300
- Physical Info
- 0.58 in H x 8.99 in L x 6.03 in W (0.84 lb)