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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788977003321
• 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 <1955->
• Disciplina: 124
• Soggetti: Causation
• 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