Description |
1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Bradford book.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Act (Philosophy)
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Act (Philosophy) |
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Action theory.
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Action theory. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Juarrero, Alicia. Dynamics in action. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262100819 (DLC) 99023910 (OCoLC)41400740 |
ISBN |
0585176248 (electronic book) |
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9780585176246 (electronic book) |
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9780262100816 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262100819 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262100819 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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