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Social ontology : collective intentionality and group agents
- Title
- Social ontology : collective intentionality and group agents / Raimo Tuomela.
- Author
- Tuomela, Raimo.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 310 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Social ontology, in its broadest sense, is the study of the nature of social reality, including collective intentions and agency. The starting point of Tuomela's account of collective intentionality is the distinction between thinking and acting as a private person ("I-mode") versus as a "we-thinking" group member ("we-mode"). The we-mode approach is based on social groups consisting of persons, which may range from simple task groups consisting of a few persons to corporations and even to political states. Tuomela extends the we-mode notion to cover groups controlled by external authority. Thus, for instance, cooperation and attitude formation are studied in cases where the participants are governed "from above" as in many corporations. -- Publisher website.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Groups and we-thinking -- Collective intentions -- Acting for social reasons -- Collective acceptance and the formation of group attitudes -- Cooperation and authority -- We-reasoning in game-theoretic context -- Institutional facts and institutions -- Group solidarity: all for one and one for all.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-8679
- ISBN
- 9780199978267 (alk. paper)
- 0199978263 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013000898
- OCLC
- 828264900
- Author
- Tuomela, Raimo.
- Title
- Social ontology : collective intentionality and group agents / Raimo Tuomela.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-8679