Rational animals : the teleological roots of intentionality /
Animales racionales: las raíces teleológicas de la intencionalidad_ ofrece una descripción original de la intencionalidad de los estados mentales humanos, como las creencias y los deseos. La explicación de la intencionalidad en _Animales racionales_ tiene una base ampliamente biológica, enfatizando...
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Series in Continental thought ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Ethological anecdotes, philosophical pronouncements
- What is intentionality?
- Three central issues concerning intentionality
- The pragmatic approach to intentionality
- Representationalism, functionalism, and pragmatism
- Goals without intentions
- The field teleologist's problem
- Goal-directedness : description and explanation
- Wright's analysis of goals
- The descriptive content of goal attributions
- The scope of the judgment of appropriateness
- Goals as strongly holistic properties
- Living agents and teleology
- The explanatory power of goal attributions
- How goal-directed explanations explain
- Goals and functions : types and individuals
- Types and goals : populations and evolution
- Instrumental rationality
- The teleological stance and the intentional stance
- Reasons
- Nonrational behavior : the lessons of the sphex wasp
- Instrumentally rational behavior : the lessons of the plover
- Goals and reasons
- The norms of instrumental rationality
- Rational explanation
- Justification and explanation
- Inference and explanation
- Goals and desires
- The motivation of rational behavior
- Rational explanation and intentional content
- Practical reason and definite content
- The limitations of merely instrumental reason
- Opacity and vague contents
- Reflection and practical rationality
- The evolution of practical rationality
- Practical reason and social roles
- Tools, language, and definite content.