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Causality and Motivation / ed. by Roberto Poli.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ; 35Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : Zahlr. AbbContent type:
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  • 9783110329391
  • 9783110329575
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BC199.C38
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The Structure of Motivation. A First Introduction -- The Exclusion Problem and the Prospects of a Motivational Solution -- Two Kinds of Motivation: Character and Reward -- Supervenience (on Steroids) and the Mind -- The Subjective Origin of Causality -- A Process-oriented Framework for Goals and Motivations in Biological and Artificial Agents -- Causality and Motivation in Edith Stein -- The Futures of Causality: Hans Jonas and Gilles Deleuze -- Christian Doctrine and Theories of Emergence -- The Contributors to this Volume -- Backmatter
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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The Structure of Motivation. A First Introduction -- The Exclusion Problem and the Prospects of a Motivational Solution -- Two Kinds of Motivation: Character and Reward -- Supervenience (on Steroids) and the Mind -- The Subjective Origin of Causality -- A Process-oriented Framework for Goals and Motivations in Biological and Artificial Agents -- Causality and Motivation in Edith Stein -- The Futures of Causality: Hans Jonas and Gilles Deleuze -- Christian Doctrine and Theories of Emergence -- The Contributors to this Volume -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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