What do you mean "Philosophy of action" -- Causality, human psychology 'action', etc.?

Issues that arise with the study of action. What things cause actions (i.e. mental events, physical events, beliefs/desires, etc.)? The relationship between trying and acting. Intention & intentionality seems very related as well. At first glance, the causality question strikes me as the most interesting, but I don't want to put myself into a box before actually engaging with relevant readings.

Free Will: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Pink.

Look at some of this guy's references regarding intention.

The Experimental Philosophy Page

Freidrich Nietzsche wrote about this a great deal. "Will" being greater than knowledge. As well schophenhaur. Read "Beyond Good and Evil."

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Or "Thus Spake Zarathustra." This was "Nietzsche's" Superman.

Action brings alot of problem with it though. If someone is confused they will bring a great deal of chaos and disturbance with their action.

This is a great topic though. You can reach all the way back to Plato and Aristotle.

Some of the existentialists, particularly Sartre and Camus, extend their philosophical analysis into human action; Heidegger makes intentionality an important key to his early thinking, and Schultz and other "life philosophers" argue that a large part of reality is socially constructed.
All of these situational philosophies dwell on human action and generally avoid the problems raised by Cartesian dualism in its various disguises.