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	Action research philosophy
		I believe that this is an adequate philosophy to use as a basis for a rigorous action research.
		In action research, the task is this: to behave in such a way that I maximise the chance of finding out when my model of the world doesn't work.
		Yet philosophy of science does not seem to be something which occupies all that much of their attention.
	www.scu.edu.au /schools/gcm/ar/arp/naive.html (2933 words)

	Anarchism - A Philosophy Of Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I believe, then, I am right in saying anarchism is a philosophy of action, because it is pre-eminently the philosophy of individual spontaneity.
		We have to look to the internal struggle in Spain for the first real meeting of fascist action by revolutionary action, first in the magnificent struggle of the Asturian minors, so ruthlessly suppressed, and later on the July 19th of last year in the historic defeat of the fascist coup by the workers of Barcelona.
		At last the philosophy of action of the fascists had met a revolutionary philosophy of action strong and direct enough to master it.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/anarchists/jackwhite/texts/action.html (1067 words)

	Philosophy Course Inventory
		PHIL 362 (3) History and Philosophy of Economics I. The development of economic thought from Aristotle to Adam Smith, focusing primarily on the conceptual foundations of economics, particularly the problems of value, distribution, and economic growth (Same as ECON 319A).
		Explanation of human actions; the conditions of responsibility; freedom of the will; the domains of rational and moral appraisal; the category of action and the individuation of actions.
		Topics in the philosophy of science of special concern to the social and behavioural sciences; hypotheses and explanation; principles, theories, models; the formation of scientific concepts; the function of mathematics in social science.
	www.philosophy.ubc.ca /undergrad/courses.html (1557 words)

	Action (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		That movement is merely the causal upshot of her guiding action, just as the onset of illumination in the light bulb is the mere effect of her action when she turned on the light.
		In “Actions, Reasons, and, Causes,” Davidson first pointed out that the thesis that there are no reason-to-action laws is crucially ambiguous between a stronger and a weaker reading, and he observes that it is the stronger version that is required for the non-causalist conclusion.
		The theory of action should be able to explain the differences between Smith's reasons and the import they have for her in the two contrasting cases.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/action (8866 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - 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.
		Is an action the same as some event?
		Must there be a causal link between the explanation and the action (as suggested by Donald Davidson)?
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Philosophy_of_action (196 words)

	Learn more about Philosophy of action in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Learn more about Philosophy of action in the online encyclopedia.
		Philosophy of action is a branch of philosophy.
		It is chiefly concerned with human action, intending to distinguish between activity and passivity, voluntary, intentional, culpable and involuntary actions, and related question.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/ph/philosophy_of_action.html (237 words)

	Action Theory Page
		This webpage is devoted to contemporary action theory, including the free will debate, practical reasoning, moral responsibility, the nature of intention and intentionality (and folk psychology more broadly), mental causation, moral psychology, and the assorted standard topics of interest philosophers of action work on (e.g., intentional action, reasons for action, etc.).
		The concerns of action theorists overlap with those doing work in other areas of the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, as well as moral philosophy, the philosophy of religion, logic, epistemology, legal philosophy, and, with the recent growing interest in social action theory, social and political philosophy.
		NIU has a top action theorist in its faculty who is still active in the field and they have other people in the faculty with interests in the philosophy of action or in related areas.
	www.angelfire.com /ab3/freewill/ActionTheory.html (3592 words)

	The Philosophy of Non-Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is a philosophy that espouses, through the new age movement, as well as through hindu and other philosophies, that everything is fine just the way it is, and that you should passively accept your lot and do nothing about it.
		This philosophy teaches that everything is fine, everything is perfect, everything is in the light, and, of course, if this is true, then that means you don't have to do anything about it.
		Any philosophy that teaches that the suffering of others is "perfect" HAS to be coming from an anit-Christos source, because the more your are connected to your higher parts and Source, the more you are going to CARE, not only about what happens in the big picture, but also for others on an individual level.
	www.freedomprivacy.com /articles/philosophy-non-action.html (1238 words)

	Affirmative Action (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		These predictions constitute the institution's affirmative action “goals,” and failure to meet the goals signals to the institution (and to the government) that it needs to revisit its efforts at eliminating exclusionary practices.There may still remain practices that ought to be modified or eliminated.
		Provided an affirmative action plan is precisely tailored to redress the losses in prospects of success [by fls and women] attributable to racism and sexism, it only deprives innocent white males of the corresponding undeserved increases in their prospects of success….
		The test of real world affirmative action lies in the urgency of its ends (preventing discrimination, promoting diversity or integration) and the aptness (moral and causal) of its means (racial, ethnic, and gender preferences).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/affirmative-action (10738 words)

	Philosophy of Action -- Seminar - Spring 2005
		The notion of reason is crucial to the distinction between actions and mere happenings.
		It could be claimed (with good reasons...) that actions are the sort of events for which explanation in terms o f reasons, rather than just causes, is in order.
		It should thus be of interest for anyone who is concerned with the relations between agency, reason, and normativity as they ar e currently discussed in a varie ty of fields (such as philosophy of mind, moral philosophy and epistemology).
	www.uwm.edu /~ferrero/action-seminar-2005.htm (1231 words)

	Biblio-action
		An action-plan interpretation of purposive explanations of actions.
		Føllesdal, D. The status of rationality assumptions in interpretation and in the explanation of action.
		Action recognition in the premotor cortex, Brain, 119, 593-609.
	actiontheory.free.fr /Biblio-action.htm (2603 words)

	Philosophy 3007: Description and Syllabus
		Bodily movements are typically explained in physical or physiological terms, whereas actions are explained in terms of motives, intentions, and reasons, which are mental phenomena.
		The topic of moral responsibility is sometimes included in the philosophy of action, by those who believe that the term 'responsible' designates a kind of behavior (or behavior-under-a-description).
		On this view, responsibility is an irreducibly normative matter and is therefore a subject for ethics rather than the philosophy of action.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/velleman/philosophy_of_action (1535 words)

	Philosophy Faculty, University at Albany
		His primary interests are in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and metaphysics, though he also has interests in epistemology.
		She is the author of a number of articles on Hume's moral and political philosophy and on normative reasons for action.
		She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of law, as well as graduate courses in public policy and public health.
	www.albany.edu /philosophy/faculty.shtml (792 words)

	Stanford Philosophy Department: Faculty, Staff and Students
		Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language
		Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind
		Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Chemistry
	www-philosophy.stanford.edu /fss.html (265 words)

	Andrew Sneddon - Department of Philosophy - University of Calgary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The most striking positive contribution is an articulation and defense of an externalist account of how events come to have the status of actions.
		This positive account holds that actions are essentially moral, in that they are constitutively related to practices of attributing moral responsibility.
		Philosophy of mind and action: In draft: papers on i) mental causation; ii) externalism and psychopathology; iii) Dan Sperber's work on culture and psychology; and iv) why analyses of intentional action are impossible.
	www.ucalgary.ca /philosophy/people/sneddon.html (256 words)

	University Affirmative Action Philosophy
		The University is committed to a nondiscriminatory philosophy that extends to all constituents.
		To ensure the realization of this goal and be supportive of its educational philosophy, the University has developed a plan for providing equal employment opportunity, as well as affirmative action for protected classes.
		This affirmative action plan commits the University to comply with all pertinent legislation, regulations and executive orders in providing affirmative action, as well as equal employment opportunity, without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability or status as a Vietnam Era or disabled veteran.
	www.apsu.edu /student_affairs/handbook/affirmative_action.htm (212 words)

	PHIL P366 22945 Philosophy of Action
		Many philosophers have been quick to suggest that the somthing else is mental - e.g., a desire, a volition, or an intention.
		These questions point back to some classical philosophical controversies about free will and determinism and forward to some contemporary efforts to clarify the nature of intentions and their role in action.
		This course satisfies the metaphysics and epistemology course requirement of the philosophy major.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr05/phil/phil_p366_22945.html (172 words)

	PHILOSOPHY 532- Philosophy of action - Springl 2003
		In this course, we will investigate the distinction between actions and happenings and why this distinction should matter to us.
		We will consider questions about the ontology of action, the explanation of action, the unity of agency, and the differences between animal and human action.
		The central question about the explanation of action is whether the distinctive mode of explaining actions (by appeal to teleological and interpretative concepts) can be reduced to the causal-predictive mode of event explanation.
	www.uwm.edu /~ferrero/action2003.htm (1034 words)

	Philosophy in performance: Philosophy in Action - * THIS FORUM IS ARCHIVED * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Philosophy in the ancient world was not merely a compilation of logical propositions nor simply rules for persuasive argumentation, but instead was a craft of living everyday life beyond the classroom.
		Philosophy for them was artfully, determinedly, and continuously becoming a character, a sum of attitudes, behaviors, gestures, and manners, a discourse about philosophy with philosophy itself.
		Using everyday words and ideas to organize one’s thinking; exploring important questions from a variety of perspectives; communicating and acting in a coherent, effective manner—these are the fundamentals of an education in philosophy which harken back to the models of the ancients.
	traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455 /philoformance/296 (494 words)

	University of Science and Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Named "The University of the Science of Man" by its founders, USP was the answer to a life-long dream of not only Walter Russell and his wife, Lao, but of the many serious-minded thinkers and leading members of the original Twilight Club.
		The Russell Philosophy expounds Universal Fundamental Truth and the Law of Rhythmic Balanced Interchange in terms of philosophy in ACTION.
		Ethics is the science of conduct, and to know the nature of the Law of Balance is to understand the unity of all things and the cause and effect nature of existence.
	www.philosophy.org /history.html (1149 words)

	Philosophy of Action Bibliography
		Randolph Clarke, "Libertarianism, Action Theory, and the Loci of Responsibility" (draft)
		Philosophy of the Social Sciences Sept 1995, v25, n3, p286(32)
		Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 26:1 (1996), pp.
	www.uky.edu /~cperring/Actionbib.html (909 words)

	Philosophy: Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Research Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, history of analytic philosophy.
		Teaching Interests: Logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of science.
		This question doesn't neatly fit into any traditional area of philosophy, but rather sits at the intersection of many areas, such as epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
	www.amherst.edu /~philo/dept/faculty.html (209 words)

	>-- The Garden of Forking Paths --<
		Pereboom thinks (I think) that if you are morally responsible for a morally wrong action, then you are therefore blameworthy for it, and if you are morally responsible for a morally right action, then you are therefore praiseworthy for it.
		On his view, the only actions that an agent can be morally responsible for without being praiseworthy/blameworthy are morally neutral actions.
		A criticism often levelled against presentists (those who believe, roughly, that only present objects exist) is that their view is inconsistent with the pronouncement we get from the special theory of relativity that there is no notion of absolute simultanaeity.
	gfp.typepad.com (3072 words)

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		An Interdisciplinary-International Quarterly of Concerned Philosophers and Scientists for Social Action.
		PHILOSOPHY and SOCIAL ACTION is founded in the belief that a philosophical examination can contribute to their clarification and lead to right action.
		It will encourage philosophical discussion of substantive socio-economic, scientific, political and legal problems as well as discussion of their theoretical and practical aspects.
	www.psaindia.org (132 words)

	Stanford Philosophy Department: Faculty, Staff and Students
		Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Philosophy
		Philosophy of action and moral psychology -- where this includes issues about the nature of agency, intention and practical reason, free will and moral responsibility, and shared agency.
		"Hierarchy, Circularity, and Double Reduction," in S. Buss and L. Overton, eds., Contours of Agency: Essays on the Philosophy of Harry Frankfurt (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002): 65-85.
	www-philosophy.stanford.edu /fss/mb.html (540 words)

	HPAC's Philosophy - Action Through Everyday Activism
		AMSA's Health Policy Action Committee (HPAC) is dedicated to medical student education and grass-roots action around policy issues as a means of addressing and improving on the social and political forces that impact the health of our patients and communities.
		From the private practice to the emergency room, from the wealthy to the uninsured, decisions made by local, state, and federal legislators have a direct effect on the delivery of medical care to our patients.
		- a comprehensive system of activism that focuses on education, coalition-building, and local and national action as the essential pillars of individual, social, and political transformation in health policy.
	www.amsa.org /hp/philosophy.cfm (489 words)

	Ethics in Action; A philosophy
		The philosophy of the Chair is inspired by Socrates’ immortal phrase, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” One conversation at a time, Socrates inspired the youth of Athens to question how they ought to live and to examine how they were, indeed, living.
		The hallmark of an ethical culture, is a climate that invites dialogue about both the easy and the difficult things in life.
		Ethics in Action: though it is worth while to attain the end merely for one man, it is finer and more godlike to attain it for a nation or for city states (Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 Chapter II).
	www.snhu.edu /Print/1311.asp (768 words)

	Philosophical Powers
		I remember seeing a poster once in the graduate student offices of the sociology department at the University of Arizona that featured jokes based on the juxtaposition of intellectual subject matter with a toy-advertisement format.
		The only joke I remember (and perhaps the only joke worth remembering) from that poster is an action figure of Adam Smith with Invisible Hand action.
		That poster, far from being inspiration for the current project, kept me from doing this for a long time out of a desire to avoid being unoriginal.
	www.geocities.com /krinklyman2/powers.html (183 words)

	Department of Philosophy: People
		She specializes in philosophy of psychology/mind and philosophy of action.
		She has a major interest in the foundations of psychoanalysis.
		"Akrasia and the Principle of Continence or What the Tortoise Would Say to Achilles" (1999, in The Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Library of Living Philosophers Volume XXIII; to be reprinted by Oxford University Press in Reasoning Practically).
	www.philosophy.northwestern.edu /people/lazar.html (225 words)

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