Concept
Action theory (philosophy)
Overview
area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of a more or less complex kind. This area of thought involves epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, jurisprudence, and philosophy of mind
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Philosophers who discussed Action theory (philosophy)
- Arthur Danto
- Georg Henrik von Wright
- Harry Frankfurt
- Peter van Inwagen
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Jaegwon Kim
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Thomas Reid
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Robert Kane (philosopher)
- Joel Feinberg
- August Cieszkowski
- Susan R. Wolf
- Rosalind Hursthouse
- Maurice Blondel
- Jennifer Hornsby
- Alfred Mele
- J. David Velleman
- Michael Bratman
- Derk Pereboom
- R. Jay Wallace
- António Castanheira Neves
Related ideas
- Philosophy
- Jurisprudence
- Social action
- Sociology
- Metaphysics
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
- Social science
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Theory
- Aristotle
- Action (philosophy)
- Causality
- Free will
- Talcott Parsons
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Rationality
- Philosophy of mind
- Will (philosophy)
- Economics
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Empirical research
- Action theory (sociology)
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Action (philosophy)
- Aristotle
- Causality
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Economics
- Empirical research
- Neuroscience
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Psychology
- Social action
- Sociology
- Talcott Parsons
- Theory
- Will (philosophy)
- Action theory (sociology)
- Activity theory
- Outline of academic disciplines
- Michael Bratman
- Motor system
- Action research
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