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Motivation and Agency

Alfred R. Mele

Print publication date: 2003

Print ISBN-13: 9780195156171

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/019515617X.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

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(p.3) Introduction
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Motivation and Agency
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Alfred R. Mele (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/019515617X.003.0001

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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