Overview
- Brings together contemporary and historical perspectives on social ontology for the first time
- Showcases cooperation between historians of philosophy and systematic, analytical philosophers
- Covers a time span of more than 800 years of philosophy
Part of the book series: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action (HSNA, volume 12)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives on Issues in Social Ontology
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Historical and Contemporary Perspectives in Dialogue
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers a collection of contributions on medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social ontology.
Since the 1990s, social ontology has emerged as a vibrant research area in contemporary analytical philosophy. Questions concerning the nature and properties of social groups, institutions, facts, and objects like money and marriage, have been thoroughly discussed. However, the historical perspective has been largely neglected. One of the central aims of this volume is to show that relevant views on social ontology can be found in medieval and early modern philosophy (ca. 1200-1700 C.E.), when, for example, the ontological status of money, law, and the sacraments was hotly debated. We see, furthermore, diverging positions between Aristotelian-inspired authors, who resort to a more naturalistic view of the emergence of the social realm, and authors like Olivi and Ockham, who emphasize the role of human free will and contractualist agreements.
This book is the very first to address historical and contemporary social ontologies. Both historians of philosophy and philosophers will benefit from this juxtaposition, which fosters a better understanding of historical positions and approaches by using today’s conceptual and analytical tools, and allows the contemporary debate to gain new perspectives by confronting its own medieval and early modern history.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jenny Pelletier wrote her doctoral dissertation on William of Ockham's conception of metaphysics. Her past and present research interests include medieval metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, theory of science, and political philosophy, particularly in Ockham and his immediate circle. She is currently interested in the metaphysical foundation of social and political concepts in medieval philosophy and theology.
Christian Rode wrote his doctoral dissertation on the reception of William of Ockham’s philosophy and logic in Italy in the 14th century. His Habilitation focused on inner experience and theories of consciousness and self-cognition in the Middle Ages and early modernity. His research interests include theories of (self-)cognition, consciousness, ontology, social ontology and political philosophy, mostly in the Middle Ages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Reality of the Social World
Book Subtitle: Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives on Social Ontology
Editors: Jenny Pelletier, Christian Rode
Series Title: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23984-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23983-0Published: 05 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23986-1Published: 05 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23984-7Published: 03 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2509-4793
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ontology, Social History