Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System,Used

Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System,Used

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What 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 nonaction, and between voluntary and involuntary behaviorhas been unable to account for the difference.Alicia Juarrero argues that a mistaken, 350yearold model of cause and explanationone that takes all causes to be of the pushpull, efficient cause sort, and all explanation to be prooflikeunderlies 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 bottomup and topdown causal relations, including those involving intentional causes, suddenly tractable. A different logic for explaining actionsas historical narrative, not inferencefollows if one adopts this novel approach to longstanding questions of action and responsibility.

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