Goals, No Goals and Own Goals
Debate on Goal-directed and Intentional Behaviour
Published on 25. May 1989
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-0-04-445341-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume, which includes essays by scientists and philosophers, is intended to provide an interdisciplinary approach to some of the many intertangled problems connected with the identification, characterization, understanding and explanation of goal-directed and intentional behaviour. The main aim of the contributors has been to forward discussion of the matters of their common concern, each with colleagues of other disciplines than his or her own, and the real interest of the debates lies in how each reacts to the other, and the directions in which the subject is taken when philosophers and scientists of different convictions and experience discuss seriously together.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations, notes, further reading list, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-04-445341-3 (9780044453413)
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Content
Philosophical background, Alan Montefiore; scientific introduction, Denis Noble. Part 1 The positions stated: goals, no-goals and own goals, David McFarland; intentions and causes, Alan Montefiore; intentional action and physiology, Denis Noble; cognitive ethnology - hunting for bargains or a wild goose chase?, Daniel C.Dennett; representation, functionalism and simple living systems, Shawn Lockery; representation and explanation, Kathy Wilkes. Part 2 The positions debated: explanation - how not to miss the point, Kathy Wilkes; the teleological imperative, David McFarland; what do intentions do?, Denis Noble. Part 3 Swan song of a phoenix, David McFarland.