Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System

Name: Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System
Brand: MIT Press
SKU: 9780262600477
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Contributor(s): Juarrero, Alicia Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780262600477
Publisher	MIT Press
Publication date	January 2002
Language	English
MRP	£39.37 GBP
Page count	302
Item weight	90 g

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.

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.

Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System

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Juarrero, Alicia Author

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