Overview
- Features a critical evaluation of the recent work of philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela on social institutions and group agents
- Offers new approaches to the collectivism-versus-individualism debate
- Includes eight essays as well as a response to each by Tuomela himself
Part of the book series: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality (SIPS, volume 8)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Collective Intentionality, Membership, and Reasoning
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Social Ontology and Social Institutions
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume features a critical evaluation of the recent work of the philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela and it also offers it offers new approaches to the collectivism-versus-individualism debate. It specifically looks at Tuomela's book Social Ontology and its accounts of collective intentionality and related topics.
The book contains eight essays written by expert contributors that present different perspectives on Tuomela’s investigation into the philosophy of sociality, social ontology, theory of action, and (philosophical) decision and game theory. In addition, Tuomela himself gives a comprehensive response to each essay and defends his theory in terms of the new arguments presented here.
Overall, readers will gain a deeper insight into group reasoning and the "we-mode" approach, which is used to account for collective intention and action, cooperation, group attitudes, social practices, and institutions as well as group solidarity.
This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers and graduate students and researchers interested in contemporary philosophy of sociality, sociological theory, social ontology as well as the philosophy of mind, decision and game theory, and cognitive science.
Tuomela’s book stands as a model of excellence in social ontology, an
especially intractable field of philosophical inquiry that benefits conspicuously from
the devotion of Tuomela’s keen philosophical mind. His book is must reading in
social ontology. J. Angelo Corlett, Julia Lyons Strobel
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gerhard Preyer: Professor of Sociology, Research fields: sociological theory and comparative sociology, philosophy of language and mind. Editor-In-Chief of ProtoSociology: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. He is author and editor of, among other works, Intention of Practical Thoughts (2011), Donald Davidson’s Philosophy. From Radical Interpretation to Radical Contextualism (2nd edition, 2011), and Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental (Oxford, 2012).
Georg Peter: Dr. Phil Georg Peter’s research concerns philosophy of language, aesthetics, social ontology, and hermeneutics. He is author and editor of, among other works, together with R. Tuomela, G. Preyer, Understanding the Social II: Philosophy of Sociality (ProtoSociology 18/19), with G. Preyer: Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism (OUP 2007), Contextualism in Philosophy (OUP 2005), Logical Form and Language (OUP 2002). He is co-editor of Selbstbeobachtung der modernen Gesellschaft (Springer 2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality
Book Subtitle: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Raimo Tuomela with His Responses
Editors: Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter
Series Title: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33236-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33235-2Published: 28 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81462-9Published: 28 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33236-9Published: 15 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2542-9094
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9108
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 220