Back نظرية الفعل (فلسفة) Arabic Handlungstheorie (Philosophie) German Teoría de la acción (filosofía) Spanish Tegevusfilosoofia Estonian نظریه کنش (فلسفه) Persian Teonfilosofia Finnish Philosophie de l'action French Athafnafræði Icelandic 行為の哲学 Japanese Handelingstheorie Dutch
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Action theory or theory of action is an area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of a more or less complex kind. This area of thought involves epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, jurisprudence, and philosophy of mind, and has attracted the strong interest of philosophers ever since Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Third Book). With the advent of psychology and later neuroscience, many theories of action are now subject to empirical testing.
Philosophical action theory, or the philosophy of action, should not be confused with sociological theories of social action, such as the action theory established by Talcott Parsons. Nor should it be confused with activity theory.