A non-reductionist account of mind and agency claiming that common-sense psychological explanations are teleological and not causal. Using the language of commo

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

In Aristotle's teleological view of the world, natural things come to be and are present for the sake of some function or end (for example, wings are present in

Monte Johnson examines one of the most controversial aspects of Aristiotle's natural philosophy: his teleology. Is teleology about causation or explanation? Doe