Causality and motivation / Roberto Poli (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poli, Roberto, 1955-

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 35.

Philosophische Analyse = Philosophical analysis ; Bd. 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation--Congresses.

Causation.

Motivation (Psychology)--Congresses.

Motivation (Psychology).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

187 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick, [N.J.] : Ontos Verlag, 2010.

Summary:

The belief is widely held that the physical world is causally-driven. The world is one because a tangled web of causally-driven processes keeps it together. However, both the psychological and the social worlds cannot be articulated in causal terms only. Hereby, "motivation" is used as the most general term referring to whatever keeps (synchronically) together and provides (diachronic) reasons explaining the behavior of psychological and social systems. In order to systematically address these problems, a categorical framework is needed for understanding the various types of realities populating the world and their multifarious interrelations. The papers collected in this volume dig into some of the intricacies presented by these problems. The papers here presented have been selected from those presented at the workshops bearing the very same name, ''Causality and Motivation" organized in Bolzano and Rome. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Structure of Motivation: A First Introduction / Roberto Poll Poll, Roberto 7

Chapter 2 The Exclusion Problem and the Prospects of a Motivational Solution / Jean-Michel Roy Roy, Jean-Michel 23

Chapter 3 Two Kinds of Motivation: Character and Reward / David Weissman Weissman, David 51

Chapter 4 Supervenience (on Steroids) and the Mind / Dale Jacquette Jacquette, Dale 65

Chapter 5 The Subjective Origin of Causality / Liliana Albertazzi Albertazzi, Liliana 75

Chapter 6 A Process-oriented Framework for Goals and Motivations in Biological and Artifical Agents / Riccardo Manzotti Manzotti, Riccardo 105

Chapter 7 Causality and Motivation in Edith Stein / Angela Ales Bello Bello, Angela Ales 135

Chapter 8 The Futures of Causality: Hans Jonas and Gilles Deleuze / Christopher Groves Groves, Christopher 151

Chapter 9 Christian Doctrine and Theories of Emergence / Cyprian Love Love, Cyprian 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Selected papers from workshops held in Bolzano, Apr. 20-21, 2006, and in Rome, Apr. 13-14, 2007.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783868380682

386838068X

OCLC:

642847880

Publisher Number:

99939846773