Action theory (philosophy)
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Action theory is an area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing intentional (willful) human bodily movements of more or less complex kind. This area of thought has attracted the strong interest of philosophers ever since Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Third Book). With the advent of psychology and later neuroscience, many theories of action are now subject to empirical testing.
Philosophical action theory, or the 'philosophy of action', should not be confused with sociological theories of social action, such as the action theory established by Talcott Parsons.
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Scholars of action theory
- Thomas Aquinas
- Hannah Arendt
- Robert Audi
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Aristotle
- Jonathan Bennett
- Maurice Blondel
- Michael Bratman
- Hector-Neri Castañeda
- David Charles
- August Cieszkowski
- Arthur Collins
- Jonathan Dancy
- Donald Davidson
- William H. Dray
- Fred Dretske
- Ignacio Ellacuria
- John Martin Fischer
- Harry Frankfurt
- Carl Ginet
- Alvin I. Goldman
- Jürgen Habermas
- Hegel
- Carl Hempel
- Rosalind Hursthouse
- David Hume
- Jennifer Hornsby
- John Hyman
- Hans Joas
- Robert Kane
- Anthony Kenny
- Jaegwon Kim
- Christine Korsgaard
- Loet Leydesdorff
- John McDowell
- Alfred R. Mele
- Ludwig von Mises
- Thomas Nagel
- Timothy O'Connor
- Juan Antonio Pérez López
- Brian O'Shaughnessy
- Joseph Raz
- Thomas Reid
- Raymond Reiter
- Paul Ricoeur
- John Searle
- Wilfrid Sellars
- Michael Smith
- Galen Strawson
- Charles Taylor
- Richard Taylor
- Irving Thalberg
- Michael Thompson
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- David Velleman
- Candace Vogler
- R. Jay Wallace
- Gary Watson
- George Wilson
- Georg Henrik von Wright
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Max Weber
- Xavier Zubiri
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