Dynamics in action : intentional behavior as a complex system /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Juarrero, Alicia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
©1999
Colección:Bradford book.
Temas:
Act (Philosophy)
Action theory.
Action (Philosophie)
Théorie de l'action.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Action theory
Handelen.
Doelgericht gedrag.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. How the Modern Understanding of Cause Came to Be
  • 2. Causal Theories of Action
  • 3. Action and the Modern Understanding of Explanation
  • 4. Action as Lawful Regularities
  • 5. Action and Reductive Accounts of Purposiveness
  • 6. Information Theory and the Problem of Action
  • 7. Some New Vocabulary: A Primer on Systems Theory
  • 8. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
  • 9. Constraints as Causes: The Intersection of Information Theory and Complex Systems Dynamics
  • 10. Dynamical Constraints as Landscapes: Meaning and Behavior as Topology
  • 11. Embodied Meaning
  • 12. Intentional Action: A Dynamical Account
  • 13. Threading an Agent's Control Loop through the Environment
  • 14. Narrative Explanation and the Dynamics of Action
  • 15. Agency, Freedom, and Individuality
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX.

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