Contributions to Social Ontology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contributions to Social Ontology write by Clive Lawson. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Contributions to Social Ontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent years have seen a dramatic re-emergence of interest in ontology. From philosophy and social sciences to artificial intelligence and computer science, ontology is gaining interdisciplinary influence as a popular tool for applied research. Contributions to Social Ontology focuses specifically on these developments within the social sciences. The contributions reveal that this revived interest in social ontology involves far more than an unquestioning acceptance or application of the concepts and methods of academic philosophers. Instead as ontology permeates so many new areas, social ontology itself is evolving in new and fascinating ways. This book engages with these new developments, pushing it forward with cutting-edge new material from leading authors in this area, from Roy Bhaskar to Margaret Archer. It also explicitly analyzes the relationship between the new ontological projects and the more traditional approaches. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers alike across the social sciences and particularly in philosophy, economics and sociology.
Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition
Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition write by Mattia Gallotti. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition brings together contributions discussing issues arising from theoretical and empirical research on social ontology and social cognition. It is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary collection in this rapidly expanding area. The contributors draw upon their diverse backgrounds in philosophy, cognitive science, behavioral economics, sociology of science and anthropology. Based largely on contributions to the first Aarhus-Paris conference held at the University of Aarhus in June 2012, the book addresses such questions as: If the reference of concepts like money is fixed by collective acceptance, does it depend on mechanisms that are distinct from those which contribute to understanding the reference of concepts of other kinds of entity? What psychological and neural mechanisms, if any, are involved in the constitution, persistence and recognition of social facts? The editors’ introduction considers strands of research that have gained increasing importance in explaining the cognitive foundations of acts of sociality, for example, the theory that humans are predisposed and motivated to engage in joint action with con-specifics thanks to mechanisms that enable them to share others’ mental states. The book also presents a commentary written by John Searle for this volume and an interview in which the editors invite Searle to respond to the various questions raised in the introduction and by the other contributors.
Recognition and Social Ontology
Recognition and Social Ontology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recognition and Social Ontology write by Heikki Ikaheimo. This book was released on 2011-03-24. Recognition and Social Ontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unique collection focuses on the unexamined connections between two contemporary, intensively debated lines of inquiry: Hegel-inspired theories of recognition (Anerkennung) and analytical social ontology. These lines address the roots of human sociality from different conceptual perspectives and have complementary strengths, variously stressing the social constitution of persons in interpersonal relations and the emergence of social and institutional reality through collective intentionality. In this book leading theorists and younger scholars offer original analyses of the connections and suggest new ways in which theories of recognition and current approaches in analytical social ontology can enrich one another.
Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents
Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents write by Anita Konzelmann Ziv. This book was released on 2013-11-30. Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents
Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents write by Anita Konzelmann Ziv. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contributions gathered in this volume present the state of the art in key areas of current social ontology. They focus on the role of collective intentional states in creating social facts, and on the nature of intentional properties of groups that allow characterizing them as responsible agents, or perhaps even as persons. Many of the essays are inspired by contemporary action theory, emotion theory, and theories of collective intentionality. Another group of essays revisits early phenomenological approaches to social ontology and accounts of sociality that draw on the Hegelian idea of recognition. This volume is organized into three parts. First, the volume discusses themes highlighted in John Searle’s work and addresses questions concerning the relation between intentions and the deontic powers of institutions, the role of disagreement, and the nature of collective intentionality. Next, the book focuses on joint and collective emotions and mutual recognition, and then goes on to explore the scope and limits of group agency, or group personhood, especially the capacity for responsible agency. The variety of philosophical traditions mirrored in this collection provides readers with a rich and multifaceted survey of present research in social ontology. It will help readers deepen their understanding of three interrelated and core topics in social ontology: the constitution and structure of institutions, the role of shared evaluative attitudes, and the nature and role of group agents.
