{"product_id":"rational-animals-mark-okrent-9780821417447","title":"Rational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality Volume 34","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality\u003c\/i\u003e offers an original account of the intentionality of human mental states, such as beliefs and desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe account of intentionality in \u003ci\u003eRational Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is broadly biological in its basis, emphasizing the continuity between human intentionality and the levels of intentionality that should be attributed to animal actions and states.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEstablishing the goal-directed character of animal behavior, Mark Okrent argues that instrumentally rational action is a species of goal-directed behavior that is idiosyncratic to individual agents and is distinguished by its novelty and flexibility. He also argues that some nonlinguistic animals are capable of instrumental rationality and that in the first instance, the contents of beliefs and desires are individuated by the explanatory role of those states in rationxadally accounting for such instrumentally rational behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe account of instrumental rationality offered in \u003ci\u003eRational Animals\u003c\/i\u003e allows for understanding the practical rationality of linguistically competent human beings as a distinctive capacity of social animals capable of undertaking roles governed by socially sanctioned norms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRational Animals\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, philosophers of biology, philosophers of action, ethologists, and those interested in the debates concerning animal intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Okrent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821417444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821417447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.87h x 6.18w x 0.61d","brand":"Mark Okrent","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086965190911,"sku":"9780821417447","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c967640-249e-4379-be7d-f530fa88100f.jpg?v=1769097522","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rational-animals-mark-okrent-9780821417447","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}