Causality and Motivation
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Causality and Motivation

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Causality and Motivation

About this book

The belief is widely held that the physical world is causally-driven. The world is one because a tangled web of causally-driven processes keeps it together. However, both the psychological and the social worlds cannot be articulated in causal terms only. Hereby, "motivation" is used as the most general term referring to whatever keeps (synchronically) together and provides (diachronic) reasons explaining the behavior of psychological and social systems. In order to systematically address these problems, a categorical framework is needed for understanding the various types of realities populating the world and their multifarious interrelations. The papers collected in this volume dig into some of the intricacies presented by these problems. The papers here presented have been selected from those presented at the workshops bearing the very same name, "Causality and Motivation" organized in Bolzano and Rome.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110329391
eBook ISBN
9783110329575
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophical Metaphysics

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. The Structure of Motivation. A First Introduction Roberto Poli
  3. The Exclusion Problem and the Prospects of a Motivational Solution Jean-Michel Roy
  4. Two Kinds of Motivation: Character and Reward David Weissman
  5. Supervenience (on Steroids) and the Mind Dale Jacquette
  6. The Subjective Origin of Causality Liliana Albertazzi
  7. A Process-oriented Framework for Goals and Motivations in Biological and Artificial Agents Riccardo Manzotti
  8. Causality and Motivation in Edith Stein Angela Ales Bello
  9. The Futures of Causality: Hans Jonas and Gilles Deleuze Christopher Groves
  10. Christian Doctrine and Theories of Emergence Cyprian Love
  11. The Contributors to this Volume