Explaining Behavior
Reasons in a World of Causes
$70.86
- Paperback
182 pages
- Release Date
5 February 1991
Summary
Why do human beings move? In this lucid portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske provides an original account of the way reasons function in the causal explanation of behavior. Biological science investigates what makes our bodies move in the way they do. Psychology is interested in why persons-agents with reasons-move in the way they do. Dretske attempts to reconcile these different points of view by showing how reasons operate in a world of causes. He reveals in detail how the character of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262540612 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262540614 |
| Author: | Fred Dretske |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 182 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 5 February 1991 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 15mm |
| Series: | A Bradford Book |
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Critics Review
”[An] important book, as intelligent and challenging as readers of Fred Dretske’s earlier works will expect… Dretske is well-informed in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and animal behavior, and one of the pleasures of his book is the range of examples which inform the arguments… His careful, nontechnical presentation will be a focus for discussion in the philosophy of mind.” Christopher Hookway , Times Higher Education Supplement “The problem addressed by Dretske of the relation between national and physical explanations of human action has become one of the principal problems in the philosophy of mind and of psychology, and it will be how the classic mind-body problem is going to be debated in the next decade.” Professor Jaegwon Kim , Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
About The Author
Fred Dretske
Fred Dretske is Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy, Duke University.
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