Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action, Mele constructs an explanatory model for intentional behavior, locating the place and significance of such mental phenomena as beliefs, desires, reason, and intentions in the etiology of intentional action. Part One comprises a comprehensive examination of the standard treatments of the relations between desires, beliefs, and actions. In Part Two, Mele goes on to develop a subtle and well-defended view that the motivational role of intentions is of a different sort from that of beliefs and desires. Mele, also offers a provocative explanation of how we come to have intentions and elaborates on his earlier work concerning akratic failures of will.
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"Offers an excellent review of much of the recent literature in action theory. Philosophers and psychologists how do research in the philosophy of mind will find this book "engaging."--Choice
"A discussion rich in helpful commentary on some of the major issues in contemporary action theory."--The Thomist
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Alfred R. Mele is at Davidson College.
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mental causation, acquiring intentions, preponderant motivation, practical evaluative inference, overt intentional action, actional mechanisms, effective intrinsic reasons, positive motivational base, narrow causal powers, proximal intention, distal intentions, conjunctive desire, pertinent intention, motivational tie, executive dimension, causal deviance, nonimmediate future, narrow behavior, motivational strength, broad behavior, intention acquisition, wayward causal chains, akratic action, motor schemata, nonintentional action Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Intention's Content, The Executive Dimension of Proximal Intentions, S's A-ing, Executive States, Settling Things, New Orleans, Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman, Myles Brand, Michael Bratman, Twin Arnie, Twin Sal, Twin Billy, Twin Earth, Nicomachean Ethics, Alvin Goldman, John Searle, Introducing Intentions, Intentional Behavior Browse Sample Pages:
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mental causation, acquiring intentions, preponderant motivation, practical evaluative inference, overt intentional action, actional mechanisms, effective intrinsic reasons, positive motivational base, narrow causal powers, proximal intention, distal intentions, conjunctive desire, pertinent intention, motivational tie, executive dimension, causal deviance, nonimmediate future, narrow behavior, motivational strength, broad behavior, intention acquisition, wayward causal chains, akratic action, motor schemata, nonintentional action Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Intention's Content, The Executive Dimension of Proximal Intentions, S's A-ing, Executive States, Settling Things, New Orleans, Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman, Myles Brand, Michael Bratman, Twin Arnie, Twin Sal, Twin Billy, Twin Earth, Nicomachean Ethics, Alvin Goldman, John Searle, Introducing Intentions, Intentional Behavior Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell Philosophy Guides) by Stephen P. Stich on page 402
- Libertarian Accounts of Free Will by Randolph Clarke in Back Matter
- Free Will (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy) by Robert Kane in Back Matter
- Subjects of Experience (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by E. J. Lowe on page 75
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