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A brief introduction to the book. After sketching the role of the talk of effectiveness and efficiency in contemporary culture and science, the chapter focuses on the philosophy of action, which appears as a good candidate for theoretical explorations of the questions of effectiveness and efficiency. It states that Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s action theory is exceptional in this respect in the sense that there is no other example of a theory in the contemporary philosophy of action which would try to explicitly study these issues. It suggests that Kotarbiński’s proposal can be seen in this context as both pioneering and attractive.
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Makowski, P.T. (2017). Introduction: Theory of Efficient Action—The Task of Reinterpretation. In: Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s Action Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40051-8_1
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