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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 minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER I THE CHARGES AGAINST TELEOLOGY
- EFFECTS AND CAUSES
- ANTHROPOMORPHISM
- OBSTRUCTIONISM
- CHAPTER II THE DIRECTION OF BEHAVIOR
- THREE CLASSIC ANALYSES
- THE TAYLOR ANALYSIS
- MODIFYING THE TAYLOR FORMULA
- TESTABILITY
- SOME CONSEQUENCES
- INTERIM SUMMARY
- MECHANISM
- FURTHER CONCLUSIONS
- CHAPTER III FUNCTIONS
- CONSCIOUS FUNCTIONS
- NATURAL FUNCTIONS
- ISSUES AND TRENDS IN THE CURRENT LITERATURE
- Natural versus conscious
- Systems
- Levels of Inquiry
- DERIVATIVE CASES
- Hybrids
- Variants
- CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER IV EXPLAINING HUMAN ACTION
- NON-CONTINGENCY63
- NON-CONTINGENCY66
- RIVALRY
- PHYSIOLOGY
- INTENTIONAL PROPERTIES: THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN AGENT
- INDEX