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- Title
PSYCHOLOGICAL VS. BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF BEHAVIOR.
- Authors
Dretske, Fred
- Abstract
Causal explanations of behavior must distinguish two kinds of cause. There are (what I call) triggering causes, the events or conditions that come before the effect and are followed regularly by the effect, and (what I call) structuring causes, events that cause a triggering cause to produce its effect. Moving the mouse is the triggering cause of cursor movement; hardware and programming conditions are the structuring causes of cursor movement. I use this distinction to show how representational facts (how an animal represents the world) can be structuring causes of behavior even though biological (i.e., electrical-chemical) events trigger the behavior.
- Publication
Behavior & Philosophy, 2004, Vol 32, Issue 1, p167
- ISSN
1053-8348
- Publication type
Academic Journal