Explaining Behavior – Reasons in a World of Causes (Representation and Mind Series) - Hardcover

Dretske

 
9780262040945: Explaining Behavior – Reasons in a World of Causes (Representation and Mind Series)

Synopsis

Why do human beings move? In this lucid and humorous portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske provides an original account of the way reasons function in the causal explanation of behavior.

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Review

"ÝAn¨ important book, as intelligent and challenging as readers of Fred Dretske's earlier works will expect... Dretske is well-informed in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and animal behavior, and one of the pleasures of his book is the range of examples which inform the arguments.... His careful, nontechnical presentation will be a focus for discussion in the philosophy of mind."-- Christopher Hookway, Times Higher Education Supplement

-- Christopher Hookway, Times Higher Education Supplement

" [An] important book, as intelligent and challenging as readers of Fred Dretske's earlier works will expect... Dretske is well-informed in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and animal behavior, and one of the pleasures of his book is the range of examples which inform the arguments.... His careful, nontechnical presentation will be a focus for discussion in the philosophy of mind." -- Christopher Hookway, Times Higher Education Supplement

& quot; [An] important book, as intelligent and challenging as readers of Fred Dretske's earlier works will expect... Dretske is well-informed in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and animal behavior, and one of the pleasures of his book is the range of examples which inform the arguments.... His careful, nontechnical presentation will be a focus for discussion in the philosophy of mind.& quot; -- Christopher Hookway, Times Higher Education Supplement

"[An] important book, as intelligent and challenging as readers of Fred Dretske's earlier works will expect... Dretske is well-informed in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and animal behavior, and one of the pleasures of his book is the range of examples which inform the arguments.... His careful, nontechnical presentation will be a focus for discussion in the philosophy of mind."--Christopher Hookway, "Times Higher Education Supplement"

About the Author

Fred Dretske is Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy, Duke University.

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9780262540612: Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes (A Bradford Book)

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ISBN 10:  0262540614 ISBN 13:  9780262540612
Publisher: MIT Press, 1991
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