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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.


CENTRAL QUESTIONS IN PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION



The Nature of Actions

Philosophers of action investigate the nature and composition of actions.

  • Is an action the same as some bodily movement? Does one movement under different descriptions constitute different actions?

  • 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 Event ? Does one event under different descriptions constitute different actions?



Intent and Action

Agents (that is to say, the beings who act), often act from intent. One question for philosophers of action is what intentions are, and how, precisely, they relate to actions.

  • How are actions to be explained or rationalized? Must there be a causal link between the explanation and the action (as suggested by Donald Davidson )?



PHILOSOPHERS CONCERNED WITH ACTION




QUOTES


  • Ludwig Wittgenstein : "What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?"



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REFERENCES


  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Action, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/action/

  • Mele, Alfred (ed.): ''The Philosophy of Action'', Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997