PHIL 2550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cognitive Psychology
10 Feb 2018
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Philosophy of action; kinds of things agents are. [example; standing up/sitting down (involves conscious decisions), jumping jacks, eating, making an exchange (purchasing something), making a change (rearranging your room, changing society), inner speech, dreaming (? solving problems, making a choice, applying logic to a situation, breathing(?)] ; he stood up because his legs were sore, he was breathing like that because he was stressed and he was trying to calm himself] [more general; involves/serves a purpose, desired outcome, voluntary, k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge of (cid:449)hat you"re doi(cid:374)g, doing, association with an agent] What is motivation: motivation moves us to act, but is not itself action, motivation is occurrent (current/ dispositional states) always playing a role, motivation is associated with certain feelings (energy, effort, urges, year(cid:374)i(cid:374)gs, a(cid:448)ersio(cid:374)s, et(cid:272) (cid:895) Four views: instrumentalist; intrinsic desires, then add belief, cognitivist; occurrent belief about what actions are right, then add motivation, sentimentalist; emotions play the key role, personalist; good character.
