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Action Theory and Social Science

Some Formal Models

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Authors:
  1. Ingmar Pörn

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 120)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Action Modalities

    • Ingmar Pörn
    Pages 1-17

  3. Intentions and Reasons

    • Ingmar Pörn
    Pages 18-42

  4. Activities and Proceedings

    • Ingmar Pörn
    Pages 43-63

  5. Control, Influence and Interaction

    • Ingmar Pörn
    Pages 64-82

  6. Social Dynamics

    • Ingmar Pörn
    Pages 83-104

  7. Action-Explanations

    • Ingmar Pörn
    Pages 105-123

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 124-138
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About this book

This book is intended as a contribution to the foundations of the sciences of man, especially the social sciences. It has been argued with increasing frequency in recent years that the vocabulary of social science is to a large extent an action vocabulary and that any attempt to systematize concepts and establish bases for understanding in the field cannot, therefore, succeed unless it is firmly built on action theory. I think that these claims are sub­ stantially correct, but at the same time it seems to me that action theory, as it is relevant to social science, still awaits vital contributions from logic and philosophy. For example, it has often been said, rightly I believe, that situa­ tions in which two or more agents interact constitute the subject-matter of social science. But have we got an action theory which is rich enough or com­ prehensive enough to allow us to characterize the interaction situation? I think not. Once we have such a theory, however, we should be able to give an accurate account of central social phenomena and to articulate our concep­ tions about the nature of social reality. The conceptual scheme advanced in this book consists, in the first instance, of solutions to a number of characterization problems, i. e. problems which may be expressed by questions of the form "What is the nature of . . .

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Ingmar Pörn

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Action Theory and Social Science

  • Book Subtitle: Some Formal Models

  • Authors: Ingmar Pörn

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1268-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1977

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0846-5Published: 30 November 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1270-6Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1268-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 138

  • Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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