Overview
- Easily accessible survey of a wide spectrum of positions addressing the foundational works of such personalities as Tuomela, Searle, and Gilbert
- Unique collection of leading scholars in the field of social ontology and collective intentionality
- Multi-disciplinary approach to problems within social science
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality (SIPS, volume 1)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Ontology of Groups: Their Minds, Intentions, Actions and Interactions
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Into the Background: Capacities and Cases
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Into the Background: Capacities and Cases
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Social Reality: Its Essence and Constitution
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Background of Social Reality
Book Subtitle: Selected Contributions from the Inaugural Meeting of ENSO
Editors: Michael Schmitz, Beatrice Kobow, Hans Bernhard Schmid
Series Title: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5600-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5599-4Published: 26 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9438-2Published: 07 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5600-7Published: 12 February 2013
Series ISSN: 2542-9094
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9108
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 251
Topics: Philosophy, general, Ontology, Sociology, general, Law and Psychology