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Action theory (philosophy)

Known as: Action theory, Action (Philosophy), Philosophy of Action 
Action theory is an area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of a more or less complex… 
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Global action networks: Agents for collective action
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
An Update on Last Planner
The Last Planner system of production control has now been in use for a number of years. Its inventors provide an update… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Ethnic and Nationalist Violence
Work on ethnic and nationalist violence has emerged from two largely nonintersecting literatures: studies of ethnic conflict and… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
ABC of Action Learning
Contents: Preface Editor's note The characteristic assumptions of action learning Essential logistics The characteristics of the… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
On the individuation of events
As Donald Davidson has pointed out,1 there are many good reasons for taking events seriously as concrete individuals, i.e., as… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
First Principles Organize Attention to and Learning About Relevant Data: Number and the Animate-Inanimate Distinction as Examples
Early cognitive development benefits from nonilnguistic representations of skeietai sets of domain-specific principles and… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
A cognitive action theory of post-traumatic stress disorder
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Computer systems and the design of organizational interaction
The goal of this paper is to relate theory to invention and application in the design of systems for organizational communication… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action
After an extraordinarily promising beginning in 1937 with The Structure of Social Action, Talcott Parsons abandoned his attempt… 
Highly Cited
1952
Highly Cited
1952
Toward a General Theory of Action
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