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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464265103321

Titolo

Causality and motivation [[electronic resource] /] / Roberto Poli (ed.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt ; ; New Brunswick, : Ontos Verlag, 2010

ISBN

3-11-032957-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Philosophische Analyse = Philosophical analysis ; ; Bd. 35

Altri autori (Persone)

PoliRoberto

Disciplina

124

Soggetti

Causation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The Structure of Motivation. A First Introduction / Poli, Roberto -- The Exclusion Problem and the Prospects of a Motivational Solution / Roy, Jean-Michel -- Two Kinds of Motivation: Character and Reward / Weissman, David -- Supervenience (on Steroids) and the Mind / Jacquette, Dale -- The Subjective Origin of Causality / Albertazzi, Liliana -- A Process-oriented Framework for Goals and Motivations in Biological and Artificial Agents / Manzotti, Riccardo -- Causality and Motivation in Edith Stein / Bello, Angela Ales -- The Futures of Causality: Hans Jonas and Gilles Deleuze / Groves, Christopher -- Christian Doctrine and Theories of Emergence / Love, Cyprian -- The Contributors to this Volume -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

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 population