Realism in Action

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Realism, Truth, and Explanation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. What Philosophers Should Know About Truth and the Slingshot

      • Frederick Stoutland

      Pages 3-32

   3. From ErkläRen-Verstehen to Prediction-Understanding: The Methodological Framework in Economics1

      • Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

      Pages 33-50

   4. The Archaeological Construction of the Past: Some Realist Moderations

      • Uskali Mäki

      Pages 51-68

   5. The Backward Induction Paradox and Epistemic Logic

      • Gabriel Sandu

      Pages 69-81

3. Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. The Scope of Motivation and the Basis of Practical Reason

      • Robert Audi

      Pages 85-97

   3. Activity and Passivity

      • Myles Brand

      Pages 99-111

   4. Reasons and Causes: The Case of Collingwood

      • Rex Martin

      Pages 113-127

   5. Intending and Trying: Tuomela vs. Bratman at the Video Arcade

      • Alfred R. Mele

      Pages 129-135

   6. Spinoza on Causal Explanation of Action

      • Juhani Pietarinen

      Pages 137-154

   7. On the Structuralist Constraints in the Explanation Schema of Folk Psychology

      • Martti Kuokkanen

      Pages 155-165

4. Intentions, Trust, and Social Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Commitments

      • Kaarlo Miller

      Pages 169-178

   3. The Components of Rational Trust

      • Maj Tuomela

      Pages 179-193

   4. Grounding We-Intentions In Individual Social Attitudes

      • Cristiano Castelfranchi

      Pages 195-212

   5. Social Groups, Collective Intentionality, and Anti-Hegelian Skepticism

      • Frank Hindriks

      Pages 213-231

   6. Social Institutions

      • Seumas Miller

      Pages 233-249

   7. Common Belief and Common Knowledge

      • Georg Meggle

      Pages 251-258

Realism in Action is a selection of essays written by leading representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science. Practical reason, reasons and causes in action theory, intending and trying, and folk-psychological explanation are some of the topics discussed by these leading participants. A particular emphasis is laid on trust, commitments and social institutions, on the possibility of grounding social notions in individual social attitudes, on the nature of social groups, institutions and collective intentionality, and on common belief and common knowledge. Applications to the social sciences include, e.g., a look at the Erklären-Verstehen controversy in economics, and at constructivist and realist views on archeological reconstructions of the past.

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Philosophy of Science
• epistemology
• knowledge
• logic
• mind
• philosophy
• reason
• science
• truth

• University of Tampere, Finland

  Matti Sintonen

• University of Helsinki, Finland

  Petri Ylikoski, Kaarlo Miller

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