{"product_id":"dynamics-in-action-intentional-behavior-as-a-complex-system-0262600471","title":"Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0262600471\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Juarrero, Alicia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51708628664608,"sku":"NEW0262600471","price":48.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/616c1LbO22L.jpg?v=1779394558","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/dynamics-in-action-intentional-behavior-as-a-complex-system-0262600471","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}