{"product_id":"living-in-spin-andrew-p-porter-9781467854771","title":"Living in Spin: Narrative as a Distributed Ontology of Human Action","description":"All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects from all the world's motions which ones are part of or relevant to an act, and so narratives give us what narratives have already shaped: the relation is circular. Many narratives can be told of an act, not all consistent. Some features of human action: - events \"off-stage\" determine what's happening \"on-stage\"; - many actions   pass through'' motions in view; - an act can be changed after the fact; - action presupposes language; - what an act is can be highly ambiguous; - we judge acts (and narratives) because we have a stake in them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew P. Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1467854778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781467854771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authorhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Andrew P. Porter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48439279288575,"sku":"9781467854771","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ba7ea41c-8af8-46ce-ae13-3a344e62b599.jpg?v=1777176617","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-in-spin-andrew-p-porter-9781467854771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}