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What place does motivation have in the lives of intelligent agents? Mele's answer is sensitive to the concerns of philosophers of mind and moral philosophers and informed by empirical work. He offers a distinctive, comprehensive, attractive view of human agency. This book stands boldly at the intersection of philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and metaphysics.
| ISBN | 0195189523 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9780195189520
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 443 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press Inc | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 6 | | Publication date | 07 Apr 2005 | | Width (mm) | 9 | | Library of Congress | BD450 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY | 153.8 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| 1 | | Motivation and desire | | 13 | | 2 | | Goal-directed action | | 38 | | 3 | | Reasons for action and action for reasons | | 69 | | 4 | | The motivational power of practical reasoning | | 86 | | 5 | | Moral motivation and moral ought-beliefs : internalism versus externalism | | 107 | | 6 | | Attitudes that essentially encompass motivation to act | | 134 | | 7 | | Motivational strength | | 161 | | 8 | | Control and self-control | | 177 | | 9 | | Deciding | | 197 | | 10 | | Human agency par excellence | | 215 | | 11 | | Motivated belief and motivational explanations | | 234 |
"This is a thoughtful, detailed, empirically informed, and trenchant discussion of some main ideas and issues at the center of our understanding of the phenomenon of motivation --including especially motivation of intentional action and intention, but also including motivation of belief. Mele's book makes contributions to our understanding of intentional action, of the relation between motivation and normativity, of practical reasoning, of self control, of forms of agency sometimes seen as distinctively human, and of motivated belief...The book makes many detailed and significant contributions to various contemporary discussions and will be of significant interest to a wide range of scholars of human action."--Michael Bratman, Stanford University "Why do we do what we do? Alfred Mele attempts to answer this question and related ones by drawing from the fields of action theory, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and even empirical psychology. The result is a book that is cl
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