ISBN:
9789400756007
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VI, 235 p. 2 illus)
,
digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality 1
DDC:
378.005
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
;
Ontology
;
Law Psychological aspects
Abstract:
This volume aims at giving the reader an overview over the most recent theoretical and methodological findings in a new and rapidly evolving area of current theory of society: social ontology. This book brings together philosophical, sociological and psychological approaches and advances the theory towards a solution of contemporary problems of society, such as the integration of cultures, the nature of constitutive rules, and the actions of institutional actors. It focuses on the question of the background of action in society and illuminates one of the most controversial, cross-disciplinary questions of the field while providing insight into the ontological structure of groups as agents. This volume offers an interesting and important contribution to the debate as it does well in bridging the gap between the analytical and the continental tradition in social philosophy. In addition, this volume expands the reach and depth of the philosophy of sociality by relating it to philosophical ideas from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and to key thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Bourdieu. The contributors include internationally renowned scholars as well as a highly selected set of younger scholars whose work is at the cutting edge of their field. Scholarly, yet accessible, this book is an essential resource for researchers across the social sciences.
Description / Table of Contents:
The Background of Social Reality; Contents; The Cultural Background of Acting Together; The Argument from Metaphor and Rule Following; Contingency and the Argument from Experience; In Terms of Theory: Some Programmatic Considerations; The Interpretative Task; The Empirical Method of Philosophy: Making Meaning; The Exegesis of Canon; Outline of the Present Volume; Part I The Ontology of Groups: Their Minds, Intentions, Actions, and Interactions; Part II Into the Background: Capacities and Cases; Part III Social Reality: Its Essence and Constitution
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I: The Ontology of Groups: Their Minds, Intentions, Actions and InteractionsWho Is Afraid of Group Agents and Group Minds?; Introduction; Group Agents and the We-Mode Approach; Collective Intentions; Some Historical Accounts of Group Minds and Group Agents; Conclusion; References; Trying to Act TogetherThe Structure and Role of Trust in Joint Action; 1; 2; 3; References; Missing the Forest for the TreesThe Theoretical Irrelevance of Shared Intentions; The Formation and Agency of Corporate Entities; Shared Intentions?; Responses to Individualist Objections
Description / Table of Contents:
Some Problems with IndividualismConclusion; References; The Boys Carried the Piano UpstairsReconsidering Akratic Action in Group Contexts; Introduction; Defining Akrasia; Single Akratic Agents (In Group Contexts); Strong and Weak Cases of Akrasia; Describing Group Actions; Applying the Analysis Against a Holist Account of Groups; The First-Person Perspective of Agents; Outlook: Collective Akrasia; References; Creating Interpersonal Reality through Conversational Interactions; Introduction; Collective Acceptance as Joint Commitment; Joint Commitments to Projects; Joint Meaning
Description / Table of Contents:
Conversational InteractionsConclusions; References; Part II: Into the Background: Capacities and Cases; Social Rules and the Social Background; Introduction; The Background According to Searle; The Background, Consciousness, and the Connection Principle; The Background and Rules; The Background as Nonconceptual; The Social Background and Layers of Collective Intentionality; References; Sharing the BackgroundSearle, Wittgenstein and Heidegger About the Background of Rule-Governed Behaviour; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; References
Description / Table of Contents:
From Sharing a Background to Sharing One's PresenceTwo Conditions of Joint AttentionIntroduction; The Phenomenon; Generation of Mutual Awareness: Two Conditions; Three Levels of Intentional Attitudes; A Shared Perspective and the Sense of Us; Conclusion; References; Social Ontology, Cultural Sociology, and the War on TerrorToward a Cultural Explanation of Institutional Change; Introduction; The Construction of Social Reality: Searle's Social Ontology; A Cultural-Sociological Reading of Searle's Background; Apocalypse Now: 9/11 and the War on Terror
Description / Table of Contents:
The Image Problem: The Iraq War and the Abu Ghraib Photographs
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-5600-7
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