Springs of Action - Understanding Intentional Behavior

Zusatztext `demanding ... but clear and businesslike. It represents the latest thinking about problems which have received a great deal of attention' Ronald de Sousa, University of Toronto Informationen zum Autor Author of Irrationality (OUP 1987) Klappentext Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action! Mele constructs an explanatory model for intentional behavior! locating the place and significance of such mental phenomena as beliefs! desires! reason! and intentions in the etiology of intentional action. Part One comprises a comprehensive examination of the standard treatments of the relations between desires! beliefs! and actions. In Part Two! Mele goes on to develop a subtle and well-defended view that the motivational role of intentions is of a different sort from that of beliefs and desires. Mele! also offers a provocative explanation of how we come to have intentions and elaborates on his earlier work concerning akratic failures of will. Zusammenfassung In this book, Alfred Mele tackles some central problems in the philosophy of action. His purpose is to construct an explanatory model for intentional behaviour, locating the place and significance of such mental phenomena as beliefs, desires, reasons, and intentions in the etiology of intentional action. Part One comprises a comprehensive examination of the standard treatments of the relations between desires, beliefs, and actions. In Part Two, Mele develops a subtle and well defended view that the motivational role of intentions is of a different sort from that of beliefs and desires. In the final chapter, Mele offers a provocative explanation of how we come to have intentions and elaborates on his earlier work concerning akratic failures of will.

Product details

• Authors: Alfred R. Mele, Alfred R. (Associate Professor of Philosophy Mele, Mele Alfred R.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.1992
• EAN: 9780195071146
• ISBN: 978-0-19-507114-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, Behavioural theory (Behaviourism), Topics in philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Behaviorism