Causality and motivation / Roberto Poli (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poli, Roberto, 1955-

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 35.

Philosophische Analyse = Philosophical analysis ; Bd. 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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 population

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Foreword

The Structure of Motivation. A First Introduction / Poli, Roberto

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

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

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

The Subjective Origin of Causality / Albertazzi, Liliana

A Process-oriented Framework for Goals and Motivations in Biological and Artificial Agents / Manzotti, Riccardo

Causality and Motivation in Edith Stein / Bello, Angela Ales

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

Christian Doctrine and Theories of Emergence / Love, Cyprian

The Contributors to this Volume

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-11-032957-3

OCLC:

851971925