{"product_id":"dynamics-in-action-intentional-behavior-as-a-complex-system-9780262600477","title":"Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alicia Juarrero\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bradford Book\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mind \u0026amp; Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Bradford Book","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614284824727,"sku":"9780262600477","price":5653.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262600477.webp?v=1775092407","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dynamics-in-action-intentional-behavior-as-a-complex-system-9780262600477","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}