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"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 Tuomela’s 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. Tuomela’s book stands as a model of excellence in social ontology, an especially intractable field of philosophical inquiry that benefits conspicuously from the devotion of Tuomela’s keen philosophical mind. His book is must reading in social ontology. J. Angelo Corlett,  Julia Lyons Strobel"

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Author:   Gerhard Preyer ,  Georg Peter
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   3.635kg
ISBN:  

9783319814629

ISBN 10:   3319814621
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   28 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Tuomela’s 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 Mäkelä: 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 Tuomela’s Social Ontology.- Response.- Index.

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Gerhard Preyer: Professor of Sociology, Research fields: sociological theory and comparative sociology, philosophy of language and mind. Editor-In-Chief of ProtoSociology: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. He is author and editor of, among other works, Intention of Practical Thoughts (2011), Donald Davidson’s Philosophy. From Radical Interpretation to Radical Contextualism (2nd edition, 2011), and Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental (Oxford, 2012). Georg Peter: Dr. Phil Georg Peter’s research concerns philosophy of language, aesthetics, social ontology, and hermeneutics. He is author and editor of, among other works, together with R. Tuomela, G. Preyer, Understanding the Social II: Philosophy of Sociality (ProtoSociology 18/19), with G. Preyer: Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism  (OUP 2007),  Contextualism in Philosophy (OUP 2005), Logical Form and Language (OUP 2002). He is co-editor of Selbstbeobachtung der modernen Gesellschaft  (Springer 2012).

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