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  1. The structure of action between East and West (A linguistic analysis of Chinese).A. Savi - 2001 - Filosofia 52 (1):127-145.
     
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    The Normative Structure of Action.Alan Gewirth - 1971 - Review of Metaphysics 25 (2):238 - 261.
    By "actions" I shall here mean "complete" actions, that is, behaviors which are voluntary and purposive in that they are initiated or chosen and controlled by their agents who knowingly perform them with a view to some purpose which constitutes their reason for acting; this purpose may be either the action itself or some outcome of the action. In contrast to these stand "incomplete" actions which are at most only partially controlled by their agents, in that such behaviors (...)
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  3. The Instrumental Structure of Actions.Markos Valaris - 2015 - Philosophical Quarterly 65 (258):64-83.
    According to current orthodoxy in the philosophy of action, intentional actions consist in intrinsically mindless bodily movements that stand in causal relations to appropriate mental states. This paper challenges this approach to intentional action, by arguing that there are not enough appropriate mental states around to ‘animate’ all of the bodily movements we intuitively count as intentional actions. In the alternative picture I suggest, the bodily movements that constitute our intentional actions are themselves to be thought of as (...)
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    The Structure of Agentive Awareness in Kent Bach’s Representational Theory of Action.Artem S. Yashin - 2023 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 60 (2):133-150.
    This paper analyzes Kent Bach’s representational theory of action, one of the causal theories of action. Bach’s theory sets requirements not only for the cause of an action, but also for how it unfolds in time and transitions into another action. These requirements suggest a sequential emergence of two components of the agent’s action awareness: the representation of the prepared movement and the perception of its sensory consequences. Bach introduces the concepts of “effective representation” (ER) (...)
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  5. The formal structure of action.L. Apostel - 1956 - Synthese 10 (1):349 - 356.
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  6. Practical Knowledge and the Structure of Action.Will Small - 2012 - In Günter Abel & James Conant, Rethinking Epistemology, Volume 2. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. pp. 133-227.
    I argue that there is a cognition condition on intention and intentional action. If an agent is doing A intentionally, she has knowledge in intention that he is doing A. If an agent intends to do A, she has knowledge in intention that she is going to do A. In both cases, the agent has knowledge of eventual success, in this sense: she knows that it will be no accident if she ends up having done A. In both cases, (...)
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  7. The logical structure of action sentences (2 analytical exercises). 2.P. Kolar & V. Svoboda - 1992 - Filosoficky Casopis 40 (4):661-671.
     
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  8. The logical structure of action sentences 2 analytical exercises-conclusion.P. Kolar & V. Svoboda - 1992 - Filosoficky Casopis 40 (5):887-905.
     
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  9. Concern and the Structure of Action: The Integration of Affect and Understanding.Alexander Albert Jeuk - 2019 - Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies 35 (35):249-270.
    I develop a theory of action inspired by a Heideggerian conception of concern, in particular for phenomenologically-inspired Embodied Cognition (Noë 2004; Wheeler 2008; Rietveld 2008; Chemero 2009; Rietveld and Kiverstein 2014). I proceed in three steps. First, I provide an analysis that identifies four central aspects of action and show that phenomenologically-inspired Embodied Cognition does not adequately account for them. Second, I provide a descriptive phenomenological analysis of everyday action and show that concern is the best candidate (...)
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  10. Practical reason and the structure of actions.Elijah Millgram - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    A wave of recent philosophical work on practical rationality is organized by the following implicit argument: Practical reasoning is figuring out what to do; to do is to act; so the forms of practical inference can be derived from the structure or features of action. Now it is not as though earlier work, in analytic philosophy, had failed to register the connection between action and practical rationality; in fact, practical reasoning was usually picked out as, roughly, reasoning (...)
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    Exploring the structure of mental action in directed thought.Johannes Wagemann - 2022 - Philosophical Psychology 35 (2):145-176.
    While the general topic of agency has been collaboratively explored in philosophy and psychology, mental action seems to resist such an interdisciplinary research agenda. Since it is difficult to empirically access mental agency beyond externally measurable behavior, the topic is mainly treated philosophically. However, this has not prevented philosophers from substantiating their arguments with psychological findings, but predominantly with those which allegedly limit the scope and conscious controllability of mental action in favor of automated subpersonal processes. By contrast, (...)
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    Pulling out the intentional structure of action: the relation between action processing and action production in infancy.Jessica A. Sommerville & Amanda L. Woodward - 2005 - Cognition 95 (1):1-30.
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    The Structure of Unlimited Action Sharing.Steven G. Smith - 2009 - Philosophical Frontiers: A Journal of Emerging Thought 4 (2):57-71.
    An unrestricted conception of actors and their interdependence in action has now been deployed effectively in various fields of study, but the question remains how we can discriminate reasonably in our action sharing if there is more to consider than simply putting persons ahead of things. By what general practical realizations can a universal action sharer be guided? I identify four primary levels of action sharing—-coexistence, cooperation, collaboration, and communion—-showing a distinctive complex of factual and directive (...)
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    The Structure of Social Inconsistencies: A contribution to a unified theory of play, game, and social action.Richard Grathoff - 1970 - Springer Verlag.
    Few phenomena have found such divergent descriptions in sociological lit­ erature as have social inconsistencies. They were studied by George Herbert Mead as eruptive "natural" events constituting a social temporality. Alfred SchUtz described them as "explosions" of the individual actor's anticipatory action patterns. Talcott Parsons attempted to grasp social inconsistencies into his frame of "pattern variables," while Erving Goffman dealt with them as disruptions of "fostered impressions of reality" maintained by one or the other dominant team. The present study (...)
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  15. The Teleological and Deontological Structures of Action: Aristotle and/or Kant?Paul Ricoeur - 1987 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 21:99-111.
    It is usually assumed in moral philosophy that a teleological approach, as exemplified by Aristotle's ethics of virtue, and a deontological approach, as heralded by Kant's ethics of duty, are incompatible; either the good or the right, to designate these two major traditions by their emblematic predicates. My purpose in this paper is to show that a theory of action, broadly understood, may provide the appropriate framework of thought within which justice can be done to both the Aristotelian and (...)
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    The Structure of Blameworthy Action.George Sher - 2006 - In In Praise of Blame. New York, US: Oup Usa.
    This chapter exploits the insight that emerged in the previous chapter — that a bad act may be rooted in an agent’s character without manifesting a defect in that character — to explain how an act’s badness can render an agent blameworthy. According to this explanation, the crucial fact is that the act’s bad-making features can be traced to the interplay of the very same desires, beliefs, and dispositions that also make the agent the person he is. By assigning character (...)
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  17. Normative Structure of Human Actions and Causal Explanations.Satya P. Gautam - 1992 - In Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, Indu Banga & Chhanda Gupta, Philosophy of science: perspectives from natural and social sciences. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. pp. 40--179.
     
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    Action of structures, structure of actions.Alberto Peruzzi - 1995 - Axiomathes 6 (3):325-348.
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    The structure of the visual world. II. The action of motor impulses on sensory excitations.D. M. Purdy - 1935 - Psychological Review 42 (6):528-536.
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    The structure of human action. Reflections on summa theologiae, iaiiae, qq. 8-17.Ralph McInerny - 1991 - Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 3:15-33.
  21. The Structure of Social Action [1937].Talcott Parsons - 1937 - Free Press.
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    Sibling action: the genealogical structure of modernity.Stefani Engelstein - 2017 - New York: Columbia University Press.
    Recuperating the sibling -- Sibling logic -- Fraternity and revolution -- The shadows of fraternity -- Economizing desire : the sibling (in) law -- Genealogical sciences -- Living languages : comparative philology and evolution -- The east comes home : race and religion.
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  23. Reasons explanations (of actions) as structural explanations.Megan Fritts - 2021 - Synthese 199 (5-6):12683-12704.
    Non-causal accounts of action explanation have long been criticized for lacking a positive thesis, relying primarily on negative arguments to undercut the standard Causal Theory of Action The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2016). Additionally, it is commonly thought that non-causal accounts fail to provide an answer to Donald Davidson’s challenge for theories of reasons explanations of actions. According to Davidson’s challenge, a plausible non-causal account of reasons explanations must provide a way of connecting an agent’s reasons, not only (...)
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  24. Life and action: elementary structures of practice and practical thought.Michael Thompson - 2008 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    Part I: The representation of life -- Can life be given a real definition? -- The representation of the living individual -- The representation of the life-form itself -- Part II: Naive action theory -- Types of practical explanation -- Naive explanation of action -- Action and time -- Part III: Practical generality -- Two tendencies in practical philosophy -- Practices and dispositions as sources of the goodness of individual actions -- Practice and disposition as sources of (...)
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  25. 2. reasons, generalizations, empathy, and narratives: The epistemic structure of action explanation.Karsten R. Stueber - 2008 - History and Theory 47 (1):31–43.
    It has become something of a consensus among philosophers of history that historians, in contrast to natural scientists, explain in a narrative fashion. Unfortunately, philosophers of history have not said much about how it is that narratives have explanatory power. they do, however, maintain that a narrative’s explanatory power is sui generis and independent of our empathetic or reenactive capacities and of our knowledge of law-like generalizations. In this article I will show that this consensus is mistaken at least in (...)
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    A Rawlsian Revitalization of Gewirth’s Normative Structure for Action.Bo Fox Pons - 2011 - Stance 4 (1):79-89.
    Alan Gewirth’s Reason and Morality justifies certain fundamental moral principles and develops morality out of the basic structure of action. Contemporary literature exposes a critical flaw in the second stage of Gewirth’s argument contending that Gewirth fails to create agent-neutral moral claims. In order to provide a transfer of interests between agents, the solution to Gewirth’s problem, I argue that certain Rawlsian concepts buttress and are consistent with Gewirth’s argument for the normative structure of action.
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    The Structure of Social Action[REVIEW]Daniel C. O’Grady - 1939 - New Scholasticism 13 (2):183-186.
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    On the Formal Structure of Continuous Action.T. Müller - 1998 - In Marcus Kracht, Maarten de Rijke, Heinrich Wansing & Michael Zakharyaschev, Advances in Modal Logic. CSLI Publications. pp. 191-209.
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    The Structure of Human Action as a Criterion for Social Analysis.Francesca Sofia Alexandratos - 2021 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 13 (2).
    This paper seeks to unveil and investigate the close bond existing between the critical project developed by Axel Honneth and Hans Joas in Social Action and Human Nature (1980) and John Dewey’s naturalistic humanism and social criticism. I will contend that these authors develop an original and compelling approach to the critique of the social world, which relies on a naturalistic redefinition of human beings with intersubjective premises. By reconsidering human beings in their continuity and discontinuity with nature, they (...)
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  30. The structure of egocentric space.Adrian J. T. Alsmith - 2020 - In Frédérique de Vignemont, The World at Our Fingertips: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This chapter offers an indirect defence of the Evansian conception of egocentric space, by showing how it resolves a puzzle concerning the unity of egocentric spatial perception. The chapter outlines several common assumptions about egocentric perspectival structure and argues that a subject’s experience, both within and across her sensory modalities, may involve multiple structures of this kind. This raises the question of how perspectival unity is achieved, such that these perspectival structures form a complex whole, rather than merely disunified (...)
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    Conditional Readiness and Structures of Meaningful Action.Peter A. French & James Shekleton - 1974 - Philosophy 49 (189):315 - 319.
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    On the Formal Structure of Continuous Action.T. Müller - 1998 - In Marcus Kracht, Maarten de Rijke, Heinrich Wansing & Michael Zakharyaschev, Advances in Modal Logic. CSLI Publications. pp. 191-209.
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    Concepts of "action", "structure" and "power" in "critical social realism": A positive and reconstructive critique.Heikki Patomäki - 1991 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 21 (2):221–250.
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    Structure, meaning, action and things: The duality of material cultural mediation.A. Martin Byers - 1991 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 21 (1):1–29.
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  35. Abstraction and Productivity: Structures of Intentionality and Action in Marx's Capital.William Clare Roberts - 2009 - In Andrew Chitty & Martin McIvor, Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy. Palgrave-Macmillan.
     
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  36. Law and Structures of Social Action.KENNETH S. CARLSTON - 1956
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    System of actions to develop the ability of diagnosing in the process of nursery primary health care.Ania Fernández Cruz & de Posada Rodríguez - 2015 - Humanidades Médicas 15 (2):294-306.
    El proceso de atención de enfermería es la aplicación del método científico en la práctica asistencial de la disciplina, de modo que se pueda ofrecer cuidados sistematizados, lógicos y racionales. El artículo que presentamos tiene como objetivo describir un sistema de acciones y operaciones para desarrollar la habilidad diagnosticar en el proceso de atención de enfermería y ser aplicado en la docencia de manera que contribuya en la calidad del egresado. A partir del análisis del perfil profesional y del grado (...)
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    The structure of the technical action and the grammar of its composition.Diego Lawler - 2006 - Scientiae Studia 4 (3):393-420.
  39. Aristotle on the Structure of Akratic Action.Elena Giovanna Cagnoli Fiecconi - 2018 - Phronesis 63 (3):229-256.
    _ Source: _Volume 63, Issue 3, pp 229 - 256 I argue that, for Aristotle, akratic actions are against one’s general commitment to act in accordance with one’s correct conception of one’s ends overall. Only some akratic actions are also against one’s correct decision to perform a particular action. This thesis explains Aristotle’s views on impetuous _akrasia_, weak _akrasia_, stubborn opinionated action and inverse _akrasia_. In addition, it sheds light on Aristotle’s account of practical rationality. Rational actions are (...)
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    The structure of social action.Harvey Pinney - 1939 - Ethics 50 (2):164-192.
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    The Structure of Perception in Particularist Ethics.Andreas Vieth & Michael Quante - 2010 - Ethical Perspectives 17 (1):5-39.
    An essential part of particularism as a systematic option in philosophical ethics is the structure of perception. In this paper, we defend perception as a central feature against the meta-ethical and meta-epistemological prejudices of rationalism.The insurmountable border between perception and justification, which is central to rationalist ethics, rests on three premises that are rejected by particularism: ethical knowledge is not exclusively inferential or discursive, ethical reflection is not solely deductive reasoning, and the bases of justified actions do not have (...)
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    Review: What Does the Structure of Intentional Action Tell Us About Our Reasons for Action[REVIEW]S. Buss - 2008 - Mind 117 (468):1035-1050.
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    Self-forming actions, contrastive explanations, and the structure of the will.Neil Campbell - 2020 - Synthese 197 (3):1225-1240.
    Robert Kane’s libertarian theory is often attacked on the grounds that undetermined self-forming actions are not amenable to contrastive explanation. I propose that we should understand contrastive explanations in terms of an appeal to structuring causes. Doing so reveals that Kane’s claim that there can be no contrastive explanation for self-forming actions is not an unwanted implication of his appeal to indeterminism, but is actually an implication of the fact that the agent’s will is not yet appropriately structured. I then (...)
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  44. ‘The Basic Context and Structure of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right’.Kenneth R. Westphal - 1993 - In Frederick C. Beiser, The Cambridge Companion to Hegel. New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Hegel’s Philosophy of Right responds to two dichotomies. One is between the freedom of rational thought in its practical application and the givenness of natural impulses and desires. Against Kant Hegel argues that pure reason alone cannot determine the content of any maxim or principle of action. Thus Hegel must find a way in which the content of natural needs and impulses – the only source of content for maxims of action – can be transfigured into contents of (...)
     
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  45. Neurosciences of action and noncausal theories.Don Gustafson - 2007 - Philosophical Psychology 20 (3):367–374.
    Recent neuroscience and psychology of behavior have suggested that conscious decisions may have no causal role in the etiology of intentional action. Such results pose a threat to traditional philosophical analyses of action. On such views beliefs, desires and conscious willing are part of the causal structure of intentional action. But if the suggestions from neuroscience/psychology are correct, analyses of this kind are wrong. Conscious antecedents of action are epiphenomenal. This essay explores this consequence. It (...)
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    Factorial Structure of the EOCL-1 Scale to Assess Executive Functions.Carlos Ramos-Galarza, Jorge Cruz-Cárdenas, Mónica Bolaños-Pasquel & Pamela Acosta-Rodas - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    The process of assessing executive functions through behavioral observation scales is still under theoretical and empirical construction. This article reports on the analysis of the factorial structure of the EOCL-1 scale that assesses executive functions, as proposed by the theory developed by Luria, which has not been previously considered in this type of evaluation. In this scale, the executive functions taken into account are error correction, internal behavioral and cognition regulatory language, limbic system conscious regulation, decision making, future consideration (...)
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    The Structure of Praxis and the Time of Eudaimonia.David Webb - 2010 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (2):265-287.
    The conception of time presented in Aristotle’s Physics IV has been supremely influential in the philosophical tradition. However, I shall argue that it proves to be inadequate to resolve a question arising from Aristotle’s own ethics; namely, the relation of ethical action to eudaimonia. As one explores this issue, a sense of time begins to emerge that calls for a reconsideration of the concepts of magnitude or dimension (megethos) and continuity (suneches) that determine the account of time found in (...)
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    The Likelihood of Actions and the Neurobiology of Virtues: Veto and Consent Power.Claudia Navarini - 2020 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23 (2):309-323.
    An increasing number of studies indicate that virtues affect brain structure. These studies might shed new light on some neuroethical perspectives suggesting that our brain network activity determines the acquisition and permanence of virtues. According to these perspectives, virtuous behavior could be interpreted as the product of a brain mechanism supervised by genes and environment and not as the result of free choice. In this respect, the neural correlates of virtues would confirm the deterministic theory. In contrast, I maintain (...)
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    Reconfiguring the centre: The structure of scientific exchanges between colonial India and Europe.Dhruv Raina - 1996 - Minerva 34 (2):161-176.
    The “centre-periphery” relationship historically structured scientific exchanges between metropolis and province, between the fount of empire and its outposts. But the exchange, if regarded merely as a one-way flow of scientific information, ignores both the politics of knowledge and the nature of its appropriation. Arguably, imperial structures do not entirely determine scientific practices and the exchange of knowledge. Several factors neutralise the over-determining influence of politics—and possibly also the normative values of science—on scientific practice.In examining these four examples of Indian (...)
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    Law and Structures of Social Action[REVIEW]E. B. J. - 1957 - Review of Metaphysics 10 (3):536-536.
    This work is primarily a study of law as a sociological factor, culminating at the level of internationalism. It is most valuable as a study of the historical and societal factors involved in legal behavior. The necessity for the exercise of responsible freedom on the part of every person, group, and state in order to achieve this goal is stressed throughout.--J. E. B.
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