{"product_id":"dynamics-in-action-alicia-juarrero-9780262600477","title":"Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System","description":"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.\u003cp\u003eAlicia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alicia Juarrero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262600471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262600477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.03w x 0.58d","brand":"Alicia Juarrero","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994078609663,"sku":"9780262600477","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_98d1050d-ff80-4a22-be5c-ce5c7b85788c.jpg?v=1683328006","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dynamics-in-action-alicia-juarrero-9780262600477","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}