{"product_id":"dynamics-in-action","title":"Dynamics in Action","description":"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.\u003cp\u003eAlicia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bradford Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50010208338170,"sku":"9780262600477","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_e4791394-4c8c-4846-bea1-a00ad50e7c07.jpg?v=1786130825","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/dynamics-in-action","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}