Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes
Fred Dretske
Any fans? It's about the tension between brain-based and psychological-based causes. I missed it (published in 1991) and I'm just starting.
It is the business of this book to show how this apparent conflict, a conflict between two different pictures of how human behavior is to be explained, can be resolved. The project is to see how reasons- our beliefs, desires, purposes, and plans- operate in a world of causes, and to exhibit the role of reasons in the causal explanation of human behavior. In a broader sense, the project is to understand the relationship between the psychological and the biological- between, on the one hand, the reasons people have for moving their bodies and, on the other, the causes of their bodies' consequent movements.
