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Philosophy of action
Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending to distinguish between activity and passivity, voluntary, intentional, culpable and involuntary actions, and related question.
The field is often defined by the quote of Ludwig Wittgenstein: "What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?"
The problems of analytical philosophy of action include:
- What are the temporal limits of an action? For instance, can an action end before its result occurs?
- Is an action the same as some bodily movement? Does one movement under different descriptions constitute different actions?
- Is an action the same as some event? Does one event under different descriptions constitute different actions?
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Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action by Pierre Bourdieu
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Thinking in Action) by Jacques Derrida
Lever Action: Essays on Liberty by L. Neil Smith
Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences : Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation by Paul Ricoeur
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society by Bruno Latour
Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy (Suny Series in the Philosophy of Education) by Max Van Manen
On the Internet (Thinking in Action) by Hubert L. Dreyfus
Essays on Actions and Events by Donald Davidson
Take Action! A Guide to Active Citizenship by Marc Kielburger
The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1 : Reason and the Rationalization of Society by Jürgen Habermas
The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones : The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action : A Discourse Virtuous in the Beginning, Middle, by Patrul Rinpoche
Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing : Meditation in Action by Frederick Franck
On Belief (Thinking in Action) by Slavoj Zizek
Rationality in Action by John R. Searle
Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Reverse Discrimination? (Contemporary Issues Series) by Francis J. Beckwith
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