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Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality

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Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality

edited by Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter

Switzerland

Springer International Publishing

2017

XIV, 220 p., online resource.

Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality ;8

Series: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality ;8

Part I. Collective Intentionality, Membership, and Reasoning -- Kirk Ludwig: Methodological Individualism, the We-mode, and Team reasoning -- Response -- Michael Schmitz: What is a Mode Account of Collective Intentionality? -- Response -- Hans Bernhard Schmid: What Kind of Mode is the We-Mode? On Raimo Tuomelas Account of Collective Intentionality -- Response -- David Schweikard: Voluntary Groups, Noncompliance, and Conflicts of Reasons: Tuomela on Acting as a Group-Member -- Response -- Raul Hakli, Pekka M?kel?: Planning in the We-mode -- Response -- Part II. Social Ontology and Social Institutions -- Arto Laitinen: We-mode Collective Intentionality and its Place in Social Reality -- Response -- Martin Rechenauer: Tuomela meets Burge. Another Argument for Anti-Individualism -- Response -- Frank Hindriks: Group Agents and Social Institutions: Beyond Tuomelas Social Ontology -- Response -- Index. 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 Tuomelas 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. .

Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Raimo Tuomela with His Responses

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