Agentividad

 

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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Agency

 

 

Alvarez, Carolyn. "The Power of Female Agency and Sexuality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." Online at Carolyn Alvarez.*

         https://carolynralvarez.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/an-analysis-of-feminine-power-agency-and-sexuality-in-behn_s-oroonoko.doc

         2019

Bamberg, Michael. "Agency." In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2005. 9-10.*

Bivona, Daniel. "Conrad's Bureaucrats: Agency, Bureaucracy and the Problem of Intention." Novel 26.2: 151-169.

Carvalho Homem, Rui. "Agency as Irony: Akrasia and (In)Action in Antony and Cleopatra and Othello." In Global Shakespeare. Ed. José Manuel González et al. Special issue of Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 25 (Nov. 2012): 45-56.*

Castro Borrego, Silvia del Pilar (coord.), Beatriz Domínguez García, María Isabel Romero Ruiz. "Identity and the Construction of Agency in Contemporary Representations of Sexualities and Gender Identities." In At a Time of Crisis: English and American Studies in Spain: Works from the 35th AEDEAN Conference, UAB/Barcelona 14-16 November 2011. Ed. Sara Martín et al. Barcelona: Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística, U Autònoma de Barcelona / AEDEAN, 2012. 210-213.*

http://www.aedean.org/pdf_atatimecrisis/AtaTimeofCrisis_AEDEAN35_portada.pdf

         2012

Coates, Linda, and Allan Wade. "Telling It Like It Isn't: Obscuring Perpetrator Responsibility for Violent Crime." Discourse and society

         http://das.sagepub.com

Crownshaw, Richard. "Agency and Environment in the Work of Jesmyn Ward: Response to Anna Hartnell, 'When Cars Become Churches'." Journal of American Studies 50.1 (2016): 225-30.

D'Cruz, Jason. "Agency and Volition in Make-Believe Worlds." In How to Make Believe: The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts. Ed. J. Alexander Bareis and Lene Nordrum. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 323-34.*

Druxes, Helga. Resisting Bodies: The Negotiation of Female Agency in 20th-Century Women's Writing. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996.*

Gell, Alfred. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016.

Gooding, David. "Putting Agency Back into Experiment." In Science as Practice and Culture. Ed. Andrew Pickering. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992. 65-112.*

Harman, Gilbert. "Moral Agent and Impartial Spectator." Lecture at the U of Kansas, 1986.

Hayles, K. "Desiring Agency: Limiting Metaphors and Enabling Constraints in Dawkins and Deleuze/Guattari." SubStance 30.1-2 (2001): 144-59.

Hoek, Kaminka van der, et al., eds. Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multilayered Systems (AAMAS 2010). (Toronto, 2010). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2010.

Holland, Dorothy C. Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds. 4th ed. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 2003.

Huttenlocher, J., P. Smiley and R. Chaney. "Emergence of Action Categories in the Child: Evidence for Verb Meanings." Psychological Review 90 (1983): 72-93.

Iozzio, Mary Jo. "Odon Lottin, OSB (1880–1965) and the renewal of Agent-Centered Moral Thought." Modern Schoolman 84.1 (2006): 1–16.

Jahn, Manfred. "Narrative Voice and Agency in Drama: Aspects of a Narratology of Drama." New Literary History 32.3 (Summer 2001): 659-679. Online at Scribd:

         http://es.scribd.com/doc/142349049/

         2013

Online at Project Muse.*

         https://doiorg/10.1353/nlh.2001.0037

Online at Academia.*

         https://www.academia.edu/32026815/

         2021

Leeuwen, Theo van. "The Representation of Social Actors." In Critical Discourse Analysis: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Michael Toolan. London: Routledge, 2002. 302-39.*

Marín Arrese, Juana I. ed. Conceptualization of Events in Newspaper Discourse: Mystification of Agency and Degree of Implication in News Reports. (UCM Papers and Studies in Linguistics). Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2002.*

http://www.ucm.es/info/fing1/psl/Research/research.html

2004-12-05

Marín Arrese, Juana Isabel, María Luisa Blanco Gómez, Elena Martínez Caro, Joanne Neff van Aertselaer and Soledad Pérez de Ayala Becerril. "Mystification of Agency in Newspaper Discourse and Writer's Relative Degree of Implication in Reported Events: Grammatical Strategies of Impersonalization." In Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain […] Actas del XXVI Congreso de AEDEAN, ed. Ignacio Palacios et al. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela, 2003. 859-66.*

Martin, Jack. Who Am I This Time? Uncovering the Fictive Personality. New York: Norton, 1988.

_____. "Re-interpreting Internalization and Agency through G. H. Mead's Perspectival Realism." Human Development 49 (2006): 65–86.

_____. "Interpreting and Extending G. H. Mead's 'Metaphysics' of Selfhood and Agency." Philosophical Psychology 20 (2007): 441–56.

Martin, Jack, and A. Gillespie. "A Neo-Meadian Approach to Human Agency: Relating the Social and the Psychological in the Ontogenesis of Perspective Coordinating Persons." Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 44 (2010): 252–72.

Martínez, María Ángeles. "From "Under the Rose to V.: A Linguistic Approach to Human Agency in Pynchon's Fiction." Poetics Today 23.4 (2002): 633-656.

McAdams, Dan P. "9. From Actor to Agent to Author: Human Evolution and the Development of Personality." In Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences. Ed. Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and E. O. Wilson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 145-64.*

Ritzer, George. "Agency-Structure Integration." In Ritzer, Contemporary Sociological Theory. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.* (Anthony Giddens, Margaret Archer, Pierre Bourdieu, Jürgen Habermas).

Shermer, Michael. "Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World." Scientific American (June 2009):

         http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=skeptic-agenticity&sc=WR_20090520

         2009

Si, Mei, Stacy C. Marsella, and David P. Pynadath. "Evaluating Directorial Control in a Character-Centric Interactive Narrative Framework." Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multilayered Systems (AAMAS 2010). Ed. Kaminka van der Hoek, et al. (Toronto, 2010). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2010. 1289-96.* (Thespian).

         https://www.academia.edu/672507/

         2019

Taylor, Charles. Human Agency and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Thibault, Paul J. Agency and Consciousness in Discourse: Self-other Dynamics as a Complex System. London and New York: Continuum, 2004.

Wiener, Morton. "Believed-In Imaginings: Whose Words, Beliefs, Imaginings, and Metaphors?" In Believed-In Imaginings: The Narrative Construction of Reality. Ed. Joseph de Rivera and Theodore R. Sarbin. Washington (DC): American Psychological Association, 2002. 31-46.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

Series

 

 

Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multilayered Systems (AAMAS 2010). Ed. Kaminka van der Hoek, et al. (Toronto, 2010). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2010.

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Dennett, Daniel. "How, When, and Why Can We Trust Our Brains?" (Johns Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum Distinguished Lecture, 2023). 6 Feb. 2023. Video. YouTube (Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum) 17 Feb. 2023.* (Information processing, Cognition, Consciousness, Agency, Language, Memes, Knowledge, Truth, Comprehension, Chomsky, Borges' Library of Babel, Reflexivity and metalanguage, Human exceptionalism)

         https://youtu.be/32u12zjgJww

         2024

 

Kuhn, Robert Laurence. "Donald Hoffman on Reality, Consciousness and Conscious Agents." Video. (Closer to Truth Chats). YouTube (Closer to Truth) 7 Sept. 2020.*

         https://youtu.be/SL8wopYLM7Y

         2020

 

 

 

 

 

See also Agents (in narrative); Self, Subject; Action.

 

 

 

 

Teoría de la acción

 

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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Theory of Action

 

Action and Agents

Acts

Action schemes. See Genres. Narrative. Action, agents. Action schemes.

 

 

Action and Agents

 

Anscombe, G. E. M. Intention. Oxford: Blackwell, 1957.

Arendt, Hannah. "Acción." In Arendt, La condición humana. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1999. 243-324.*

Aristotle (Aristóteles). "Libro tercero. Acciones voluntarias e involuntarias." Aristóteles. Ética Nicomaquea. Trans. and notes by Julio Pallí Bonet. In Aristóteles, Ética Nicomaquea. Política. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Aristóteles, III). Madrid: Gredos, 2011. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2014. 53-76.*

Arrow, K. "Economic Theory and the Postulate of Rationality." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Ed. J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman. Vol. 2. MacMillan, London: MacMillan, 1987. 69–75.

Atkinson, J. M., and J. Heritage, eds. Structures of Social Action. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.

Baddeley, A. "The Remembered Self and the Enacted Self." In The Remembering Self: Constructions and Accuracy in the Self-Narrative. Ed. U. Neisser and R. Fivush. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. 236-42.

Bakhtin, Mikhail M. "K filosofi postupka." ["Toward a Philosophy of the Act"] c. 1920. In Filosofiia i sotsiologiia nauki i tekhniki (1984-85). Moscow: Nauka, 1986.

Bartsch, Renate. Consciousness Emerging: The Dynamics of Perception, Imagination, Action, Memory, Thought, and Language. (Advances in Consciousness Research, series A, 39). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002.

Beaugrande, Robert de, and Benjamin Colby. "Narrative Models of Action and Interaction." Cognitive Science 3 (1979): 46-66.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice. 1972. Trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1977. 1982. 1986.

_____. Raisons pratiques. (Points). Paris: Seuil, 1996.

_____. Razones prácticas. (Argumentos). Barcelona: Anagrama.

_____.  El sentido práctico.  Madrid: Taurus, 1991.

Bratman, M. "Shared Cooperative Activity." Philosophical Review 101.2 (1992): 327-41.

Brenner, M., ed. The Structure of Action. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980.

Bruce, Bertram C. "Plans and Social Actions." (Technical report 3550). Cambridge: BBN, 1977.

Burke, Kenneth. Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose. 1935. 1954. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.

_____. A Grammar of Motives. Bekeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1945.

_____. A Grammar of Motives. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945.

_____. A Grammar of Motives. Pbk. 1962.

_____. A Grammar of Motives. In Burke, A Grammar of Motives and A Rhetoric of Motives. Cleveland: World, 1962.

_____. A Grammar of Motives. Pbk. Berkeley: U of California P, 1969.

_____. A Rhetoric of Motives. 1950. Pbk 1962.

_____. A Rhetoric of Motives. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1953.

_____. A Rhetoric of Motives. New York: Braziller, 1955.

_____. A Rhetoric of Motives. In Burke, A Grammar of Motives and A Rhetoric of Motives. Cleveland: World, 1962.

_____. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1950. Pbk 1962. 

_____. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: U of California P, 1969.

_____. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. 1973. 1976.

_____. (On symbolic action). In Twentieth Century Literary Theory.  Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller. Albany: State U of New York P, 1987. 85-100.*

_____. "(Nonsymbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action." Critical Inquiry 4 (Summer 1978): 809-38.

Caserio, Robert L. "Story, Discourse, and Anglo-American Philosophy of Action." The Journal of Narrative Technique 17.1 (1987): 1-11.*

Castoriadis, Cornelius. "Done and To Be Done." 1989. In The Castoriadis Reader. Trans. and Ed. David Ames Curtis. New York: Blackwell, 1997. 361-417.

Charon, Joel M. "Human Action." In Charon, Symbolic Interactionism An Introduction, an Interpretation, an Integration. Upper Saddle River (NJ): Prentice-Hall; 7th ed. 2001. 124-48.*

Clark, Stephen H. "El texto vs. la acción en Ricœur." In Con Paul Ricœur: Indagaciones hermenéuticas. By Paul Ricœur, Wood, Clark, et al. Ed. Mario J. Valdés. 1998. Barcelona: Azul Editorial, 2000. 75-90.*

Cooper, Joel, Robert Mirabile and Steven J. Scher. "Actions and Attitudes: The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance." Ch. 4 of Persuasion: Psychological Insights and Perspectives. Ed. Timothy C. Brock and Melanie C. Green. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage, 2005. 63-79.*

Corredor, Cristina. "Acción comunicativa / Acción estratégica." In Compendio de Lógica, Argumentación y Retórica. Ed. Luis Vega Reñón and Paula Olmos Gómez. Madrid: Trotta, 2011. 3rd ed. 2016.*

Coulter, J. Mind in Action. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.

Danto, Arthur C. "What Can We Do?" Journal of Philosophy 60 (1963): 435-45.

_____. "Basic Actions." American Philosophical Quarterly 2 (1965): 141-8. Rpt. in The Philosophy of Action. New York: Oxford UP, 1968. 43-58.

_____. Analytical Philosophy of Action.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1973. 

Davidson, Donald. Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford: Clarendon, 1980.

Deleuze, Gilles. "2. Actif et réactif." In Deleuze, Nietzsche et la philosophie. Paris: PUF, 1962. 1967. 6th ed. 1983. 44-82.*

Dickenson, A., and D. Sanks. "Instrumental Action and Causal Representation." In Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate. Ed. D. Sperber, D. Premack, and A. J. Premack. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995. 5-25.

Dijk, Teun A. van. "Action, Action Description, and Narrative." New Literary History 6.2 (1975): 273-94.

_____. "Philosophy of Action and Theory of Narrative." Poetics 5 (1976): 287-338.

Docherty, Thomas. "Agency and Understanding." In Docherty, Alterities. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 69-94.*

Dokic, Jérôme, and Joëlle Proust, eds. Simulation and Knowledge of Action. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002.

Elbourne, P. Situations and Individuals. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, Cambridge, 2005.

Escohotado, Antonio.  "Una teoría de la acción."  (Fichte, Hegel).  Los Cuadernos de la Gaya Ciencia I: Lectura y crítica.   Barcelona: La Gaya Ciencia, 1975. 41-72.*

Fazio, Russell H., and David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen. "Acting as We Feel." Ch. 3 of Persuasion: Psychological Insights and Perspectives. Ed. Timothy C. Brock and Melanie C. Green. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage, 2005. 41-62.*

Fisher, Walter R. Human Communication as Narration: Toward a Philosophy of Reason, Value and Action. Columbia (SC): U of South Carolina P, 1987.

Fried, C. "Reason and Action." Natural Law Forum 11 (1966): 13-35.

Fuentes Stipicevik, Verushka. "Reflexión sobre el componente ideológico discursivo en la estructura de los actos y hechos sociales." Investigación y desarrollo 23.1 (2015): 199-227.*

         http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/investigacion/article/viewArticle/6556

         2015

García Landa, José Angel. "La competencia modal del narrador: Hacer." In García Landa, Acción, Relato, Discurso: Estructura de la ficción narrativa. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1998. 298-99.*

_____. "Procesos, representaciones, narraciones, narratologías." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 19 July 2007.

         http://garciala.blogia.com/2007/071903-procesos-representaciones-narraciones-narratologias.php

         2007-08-02

_____. "Teoría hegeliana de la apropiación (y de la vanidad de las obras)." In García Landa, Vanity Fea July 2009.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2009/07/teoria-hegeliana-de-la-apropiacion-y-de.html

         2009

Garfinkel, Harold. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1967.

_____. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Cambridge (MA): Polity Press, 1984.

_____. "Le socle routinier des activités ordinaires ." In Garfinkel, Recherches en ethnométhodologie. Ed. M. Barthélemy and L. Quéré. Paris: PUF, 2007.

_____. Recherches en ethnométhodologie. Ed. M. Barthélemy and L. Quéré. Paris: PUF, 2007.

Gauld, A., and J. Shotter. Human Action and Its Psychological Investigation. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.

Geach, Peter. Mental Acts: Their Content and Objects. London: Routledge, n. d.

Gergen, Kenneth J. "Correspondence versus Autonomy in the Language of Understanding Human Action." In Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities. Ed. Donald W. Fiske and Richard A. Shweder. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.

Giddens, A. Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis. London: Macmillan, 1979.

Goffman, Erving. "Where the Action Is."  In Goffman, Interaction Ritual  1967. New York: Random House-Pantheon, 1982. 149-270.*

_____. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior.  New York: Doubleday-Anchor, 1967. Rpt. New York: Random House-Pantheon, 1982.*

_____.  Interaction Ritual.   London: Lane, 1972.

_____. "Footing." In Goffman, Forms of Talk. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. 124-59.*

Goldman, A. I. A Theory of Human Action. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1970.

Greimas, Algirdas Julien. "Des accidents dans les sciences dites humaines: analyse d'un texte de Georges Dumézil." Introduction à l'analyse du discours en sciences sociales. By A. J. Greimas and E. Landowski. Paris: Hachette, 1979.

_____. "Des accidents dans les sciences dites humaines: analyse d'un texte de Georges Dumézil." In Greimas, Du Sens II. Paris: Seuil, 1983. 171-212.*

_____. "Le défi." Bulletin du groupe de recherches sémio-linguistiques (EHESS-CNRS) (1982).

_____. "Le défi." In Greimas, Du Sens II. Paris: Seuil, 1983. 213-23.*

Griffin, Leland. "10. A Dramatistic Theory of the Rhetoric of Movements." 1969. In Landmark Essays on Kenneth Burke. Ed. Barry Brummett. Davis (CA): Hermagoras Press, 1993. 199-220.*

Gusfield, Joseph R. "The Bridge over Separated Lands: Kenneth Burke's Significance for the Study of Social Action." In The Legacy of Kenneth Burke. Ed. Trevor Melia and Herbert Simons. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989. 28-54.

Habermas, J. The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Society. Boston (MA): Beacon P, 1984.

Hayek, F. A. "The Results of Human Action but not of Human Design." In Hayek, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. 96-105.

Hekman, S. "Action as a Text: Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Social Scientific Analysis of Action." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 14 (1984): 333-54.

Henderson, Greig E. Kenneth Burke: Literature and Language as Symbolic Action. Athens (GA) and London: U of Georgia P, 1988.

Hickok, Gregory. "Eight Problems for the Mirror Neuron Theory of Action Understanding in Monkeys and Humans." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21.7 (2009): 1129-43. Online at National Center for Biotechnology Information.*

         doi: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21189

         http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773693/

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Holdcroft, David. Words and Deeds. Oxford: Clarendon, 1978.

Jones, E. E., and Richard E. Nisbett. The Actor and the Observer: Divergent Perceptions of the Causes of Behavior. New York: General Learning Press, 1971.

Kaplan, Mark. Decision Theory as Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Kenny, Anthony. Action, Emotion and Will. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Humanities Press, 1963.

Kim, J. Supervenience. Dartmouth: Ashgate, 2002.

Lahire, Bernard. L'Homme pluriel: Les ressorts de l'action. Paris: Nathan, 1998. Rpt. Hachette/Pluriel, 2006.

Landfield, A. W., ed. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Personal Constructs. Lincoln (NE): U of Nebraska P, 1977.

LaPiere, R. T. "Attitudes versus actions." Social Forces 3.2 (1934): 230–37.

Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford University Press, 2005.

LePore, Ernest, ed. Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985.

Livingston, Paisley. Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction. 1991.

Lock, Andrew, ed. Action, Gesture and Symbol: The Emergence of Language. London: Academic Press, 1978.

Lyotard, J.-F.  Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event. New York: Columbia UP, 1988.

Martin, Jack, and A. Gillespie. "A Neo-Meadian Approach to Human Agency: Relating the Social and the Psychological in the Ontogenesis of Perspective Coordinating Persons." Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 44 (2010): 252–72.

McAdams, Dan P. "9. From Actor to Agent to Author: Human Evolution and the Development of Personality." In Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences. Ed. Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and E. O. Wilson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 145-64.*

McCarthy, Thomas. "La idea de una pragmática universal." In McCarthy, La teoría crítica de Jürgen Habermas. Madrid: Tecnos, 1988. 315-36.*

McGuirk, Bernard, ed. Redirections in Critical Theory: Truth, Self, Action, History. London: Routledge, 1994.*

McKeon, Richard. Thought, Action, and Passion. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1954.

Mead, George Herbert. The Philosophy of the Act. 1938.

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Mills, C. Wright. "Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive." American Sociological Review 5 (1940): 904-13.

Mises, Ludwig von. Human Action. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1966. (Cooperation).

_____. La acción humana.

Montaigne, Michel de. "I.i. Por distintos medios llégase a igual fin." In Montaigne, Ensayos completos. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. 2010. 51-53.*

_____. "I.xxiv. Distintos resultados de una misma decisión." In Montaigne, Ensayos completos. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. 2010. 163-70.*

Morson, Gary Saul. Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time. New Haven: Yale UP, 1994.*

Mosterín, Jesús. Racionalidad y acción humana. Madrid: Alinza, 1978.

Mougán Rivero, Juan Carlos. Acción y racionalidad: Actualidad de la obra de John Dewey. Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz, 2001.

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Pearson, Giles, and M. Pakaluk. Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle. Oxford: Oxford UP, 201.

Pink, Thomas. The Psychology of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, c. 1997.

Polanyi, Michael. "The Determinants of Social Action." In Roads to Freedom: Essays in Honor of Friedrich A. von Hayek. Ed. Erich Streissler. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 165-179.

Redner, Harry. In the Beginning Was the Deed: Reflections on the Passage of Faust. U of California P, 1982.

Rescher, Nicolas.  The Logic of Decision and Action.  Pittsburgh: U ofPittsburgh P, 1966.

Richardson, Henry S. Practical Reasoning about Final Ends. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Ricoeur, Paul.  "Structure, Word, Event."  Trans. Robert D. Sweeny.  Philosophy Today 12 (1968): 62-75.

_____. "The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text." Social Research 38.3 (1971): 529-62.

_____. "The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text". New Literary History 5.1 (1973).

_____. "The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as Text." In Ricœur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981. 197-221.

_____. "The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text." In Interpretive Social Science. Ed. Rabinow and Sullivan.

_____. "Le modèle du texte: L'action sensée considérée comme un texte." In Ricœur, Du texte à l'action. Paris: Seuil, 1986. Rpt. (Points). 1998. 205-36.*

_____. "Le Discours de l'action." In La Sémantique de l'action. By Paul Ricœur and the Centre de de Phénoménologie. Paris: CNRS, 1977. 3-137.

_____. El discurso de la acción. Trans. Pilar Calvo. (Teorema, Serie Menor). Madrid: Cátedra, 1981.

_____. "Expliquer et comprendre. Sur quelques connnexions remarquables entre la théorie du texte, la théorie de l'action et la théorie de l'histoire." Revue Philosophique de Louvain 75 (Feb. 1977): 126-47.

_____. "Expliquer et comprendre. Sur quelques connnexions remarquables entre la théorie du texte, la théorie de l'action et la théorie de l'histoire. In Ricœur, Du texte à l'action. Paris: Seuil, 1986. Rpt. (Points). 1998. 179-203.*

_____. "Explanation and Understanding: On Some Remarkable Connections among the Theory of the Text, Theory of Action, and Theory of History." In The Philosophy of Paul Ricœur: An Anthology of His Work. Ed. Charles E. Reagan and David Stewart. Boston, 1978.

_____. "La structure symbolique de l'action." In Symbolism. Acts of the 14th International Conference on Sociology of Religion. Strasbourg, 1977. Paris: CNRS, n. d. 31-50.

_____. Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action, and Interpretation. Trans. and ed. John B. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP; Paris: Editions de la maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1981.

_____. "L'initiative." In Labyrinthe: Parcours éthiques. Ed. R. Celis. Bruxelles: Publications des Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, 1986.

_____. "L'initiative." In Ricœur, Du texte à l'action. Paris: Seuil, 1986. Rpt. (Points). 1998. 288-307.*

_____. Du texte à l'action: Essais d'herméneutique II. (Esprit). Paris: Seuil, 1986. (Préface. De l'interprétation. I. Pour une phénoménologie herméneutique. II. De l'herméneutique des textes à l'herméneutique de l'action. III. Idéologie, utopie et politique).

_____. Du texte à l'action: Essais d'herméneutique II. (Points; Essais, 377). Paris: Seuil, 1998.*

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Internet resources

 

 

"Actor-Network Theory." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.* (Bruno Latour)

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory

         2018

 

 

 

 

 

Journals

 

 

 

Philosophy of Action eJournal

SSRN

Vol. 7.1 (23 Jan. 2014).*

http://www.ssrn.com/link/Philosophy-Action.html

2014

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Highsmith, Patricia. "Where the Action Is." From Mermaids on the Golf Course. In The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2001. 592-605.*

 

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Harré, Rom. "The Ultimate Insight: A Moral Dimension for Social Psychology." Lecture at the Positioning Theory symposium, Bruges, 8 July 2015. Video. YouTube (United Nations Diversity -CRIS) 13 July 2015.* (Interaction; Roles, Rights, duties, action, resistance, conversations).

         https://youtu.be/CxmHTk7aYto

         2021

 

Lombo, José Angel. "Fenomenología de la atención y unidad del viviente." Video seminar, U de Navarra, 12 March 2013. YouTube (universidaddenavarra) 17 April 2013.*

         https://youtu.be/a2gAPZNLCek

         2015

 

Martín Jiménez, Luis Carlos. "Núcleo y síntesis del materialismo filosófico." Video lecture. (Los Ensayos materialistas de Gustavo Bueno, 50 años después XVIII Curso de Filosofía de la Universidad de la Rioja en Santo Domingo de la Calzada, lunes 18 al viernes 22 de julio de 2022). YouTube (fgbuenotv) 21 July 2022.* (Schools, Dialectics, Empires, Institutions, Religion, Action, Critical thinking, Conflicts, Christianity, Transcendence, Meaning of life, World, Reason).

https://youtu.be/9t35197jV-0

         2022

 

Rizzolatti, Giacomo. "Inhibition of Action by the Frontal Cortex." Video. GoCognitive 2016.*

         http://gocognitive.net/interviews/inhibition-action-frontal-cortex

         2016

 

Shotter, John. "Movements of Feeling and Moments of Judgement." Video lecture. YouTube (Grupo Campos Eliseos Mexico) 25 Jan. 2016.*

         https://youtu.be/6M_SSwM_gjE

         2016

 

 

 

 

See also Narrative theory: Action, agents; Events; Behaviour; Decision; Intention; Interaction; Plans; Social life and relationships; Pragmatics.

 

 

 

 

Acts

 

 

Gillespie, A. "G. H. Mead: Theorist of the Social Act." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 35 (2005): 19–39.

 

 

Audio

 

Moltmann, Frederike. "Le produit cognitif comme artefact." Online audio at Savoirs ENS  5 April 2015.*

         http://savoirs.ens.fr//expose.php?id=2122

         2015

 

 

See also Events; Decision; Choice; Pragmatics; Speech acts; Motives.