Search Results for: Reasons And Causes

Are the reasons for which we act the causes of our actions? In the nine essays collected here (including a major historical overview by the editors), experts in

Why do human beings move? In this lucid portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske provides an original account of the way reasons function in the causal explana

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intell

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. In addition, mathematicians regard

Examines Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being.