Harvard Educational Review, Volume 26"The Harvard Educational Review is a journal of opinion and research in the field of education. Articles are selected, edited, and published by an editorial board of graduate students at Harvard University. The editorial policy does not reflect an official position of the Faculty of Education or any other Harvard faculty."-- Volume 81, Number 2, Summer 2011 |
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A simple instance of purposive activity would be that of a boy's shaking an apple tree in order to get the apples he desires . We have here a causal sequence , of which the successive steps are as follows . Assuming that the boy sees ...
A simple instance of purposive activity would be that of a boy's shaking an apple tree in order to get the apples he desires . We have here a causal sequence , of which the successive steps are as follows . Assuming that the boy sees ...
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the former , a certain sort of psychological state , namely , a desire , or more broadly , a craving , constitutes the first event of the causal sequence ; whereas in cases of " mechanical " causation , craving or desire does not enter ...
the former , a certain sort of psychological state , namely , a desire , or more broadly , a craving , constitutes the first event of the causal sequence ; whereas in cases of " mechanical " causation , craving or desire does not enter ...
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If we agree to call the " target " of consciously purposive activity the occurrence which would fulfil the desire ... then we have to distinguish between satisfaction of his desire - e.g . , the boy's getting the apples he desires to ...
If we agree to call the " target " of consciously purposive activity the occurrence which would fulfil the desire ... then we have to distinguish between satisfaction of his desire - e.g . , the boy's getting the apples he desires to ...
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Contents
VOL | 2 |
Richard W Willard Reginald D Archambault Rachel Chaffey | 3 |
Articles | 9 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Harvard Educational Review, Volume 26 |
| Editor | Howard Eugene Wilson |
| Contributor | Harvard University. Graduate School of Education |
| Publisher | Harvard University, 1956 |
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