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Author Juarrero, Alicia.

Title Dynamics in action : intentional behavior as a complex system / Alicia Juarrero.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Bradford book.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.
Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. How the Modern Understanding of Cause Came to Be -- 2. Causal Theories of Action -- 3. Action and the Modern Understanding of Explanation -- 4. Action as Lawful Regularities -- 5. Action and Reductive Accounts of Purposiveness -- 6. Information Theory and the Problem of Action -- 7. Some New Vocabulary: A Primer on Systems Theory -- 8. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics -- 9. Constraints as Causes: The Intersection of Information Theory and Complex Systems Dynamics -- 10. Dynamical Constraints as Landscapes: Meaning and Behavior as Topology -- 11. Embodied Meaning -- 12. Intentional Action: A Dynamical Account -- 13. Threading an Agent's Control Loop through the Environment -- 14. Narrative Explanation and the Dynamics of Action -- 15. Agency, Freedom, and Individuality -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
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Subject Act (Philosophy)
Act (Philosophy)
Action theory.
Action theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Juarrero, Alicia. Dynamics in action. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262100819 (DLC) 99023910 (OCoLC)41400740
ISBN 0585176248 (electronic book)
9780585176246 (electronic book)
9780262100816 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0262100819 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0262100819 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)