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Social ontology : collective intentionality and group agents / Raimo Tuomela.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tuomela, Raimo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social groups.
- Group identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages)
- Other Title:
- Collective intentionality and group agents
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The main focus of this book about social ontology is collective intentionality (as expressed by joint intentions, wants, beliefs, and action) and group agency. The book gives the first full-blown theory of group reasons in the sense of members' participatory reasons as distinguished from a group agent's reasons for action.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 4, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-936778-7
- 0-19-997827-1
- OCLC:
- 854583720
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