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Title
Tadeusz Kotarbiński's Action Theory : Reinterpretive Studies / by Piotr Tomasz Makowski.
ISBN
9783319400518
3319400517
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 244 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-40051-8 doi
Call Number
B53
Dewey Decimal Classification
128.4
Summary
The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbiński's philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates. Piotr Makowski shows that Kotarbiński-Alfred Tarski's teacher and one of the most important philosophers of the renowned Lvov-Warsaw school--proposed a groundbreaking, original, and (in at least a few respects) still fresh perspective in action theorizing. The book examines and develops Kotarbiński's ideas in the context of the most recent discussions in the philosophy of action. The main idea behind Kotarbiński's action theory--and thus, behind this book--is the significance of the philosophical investigations of the general conditions of effectiveness, efficiency, and economy of intentional actions. Makowski presents and reinterprets Kotarbiński's views on these dimensions of our activities and sheds new light on the most important areas of action theory.
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1. Introduction. Theory of Efficient Action
The Task of Reinterpretation
2. The Virtues and Vices of Kotarbiński's Praxiology
3. Effectiveness and Efficiency. The Praxiological Sense of Actions
4. Consequences of Concretism: Rationality and Reasons for Action
5. The Organization of Actions and Planning
6. Automaticity and the Economization of Actions
7. Shared Agency. The Praxiological Approach
Epilogue.
