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Dynamics in Action - by Alicia Juarrero (Paperback)

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  • What is the difference between a wink and a blink?
  • About the Author: Alicia Juarrero is Professor of Philosophy at Prince George's Community College, Maryland.
  • 300 Pages
  • Philosophy, Mind & Body

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About the Book



Alicia Juarrero argues that a mistaken, 350-year-old model ofcause and explanation--one that takes all causes to be of thepush-pull, efficient cause sort, and all explanation to beprooflike--underlies contemporary theories of action.



Book Synopsis



What 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.



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"Juarrero's lively text skillfully applies the kinds of causal analyses required in non-equilibrium, complex systems theory to the problems of action theory."--Stanley N. Salthe, Biological Sciences, Binghamton University

" Juarrero's lively text skillfully applies the kinds of causal analyses required in non-equilibrium, complex systems theory to the problems of action theory." -- Stanley N. Salthe, Biological Sciences, Binghamton University

" Juarrero's lively text skillfully applies the kinds of causal analyses required in non-equilibrium, complex systems theory to the problems of action theory." -- Stanley N. Salthe, Biological Sciences, Binghamton University



About the Author



Alicia Juarrero is Professor of Philosophy at Prince George's Community College, Maryland. She is a member of the National Council on the Humanities, the governing board of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.99 Inches (H) x 6.03 Inches (W) x .58 Inches (D)
Weight: .84 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 300
Genre: Philosophy
Sub-Genre: Mind & Body
Publisher: Bradford Book
Format: Paperback
Author: Alicia Juarrero
Language: English
Street Date: January 25, 2002
TCIN: 81790077
UPC: 9780262600477
Item Number (DPCI): 247-19-0389
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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