Motivation and Agency
Mele, Alfred R. Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University
Print publication date: 2003 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515617-1




Introduction
doi:10.1093/019515617X.003.0001

Alfred R. Mele
Abstract: Provides a preview of the book's four main parts: (1) “Motivation and Action”; (2) “Motivation and Normativity”; (3) “Strength and Control” (more precisely, motivational strength and self-control); and (4) “Decision, Agency, and Belief.” The chapter also identifies popular theses in motivational psychology, identifies a central element of the causal theory of agency to be defended, and explains why behavioral flexibility is a mark of motivation.

Keywords: actions and agency, behavioral flexibility, belief, causal theory of agency, decision, motivation, motivational psychology, motivational strength, normativity, self-control,

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Full Book Contents
Introduction
I Motivation and Action
1 Motivation and Desire
2 Goal-Directed Action
II Motivation and Normativity
3 Reasons for Action and Action for Reasons
4 The Motivational Power of Practical Reasoning
5 Moral Motivation and Moral Ought-Beliefs
6 Attitudes That Essentially Encompass Motivation to Act
III Strength and Control
7 Motivational Strength
8 Control and Self-Control
IV Decision, Agency, and Belief
9 Deciding
10 Human Agency Par Excellence
11 Motivated Belief and Motivational Explanations
Bibliography
Index
 
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