Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes

MIT Press (1988)
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In this lucid portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske provides an original account of the way reasons function in the causal explanation of behavior.

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0262540614   9780262540612   0262040948

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10.2307/2185177
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