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Causality and Motivation
Contributor(s): Poli, Roberto (Editor)
ISBN: 3110329395     ISBN-13: 9783110329391
Publisher: de Gruyter
OUR PRICE:   $135.84  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Political
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.17 lbs) 192 pages
 
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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.