Socializing Metaphysics The Nature of Social Reality

by Schmitt, Frederick F.; Ebbs, Gary; Gilbert, Margaret; Haslanger, Sally; Kimble, Kevin; Mallon, Ron; Miller, Seumas; Pettit, Philip; Roth, Abraham Sesshu; Searle, John; Tuomela, Raimo; Witherspoon, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780742514294
• ISBN10: 0742514293
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-05
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Socializing Metaphysics supplies diverse answers to the basic questions of social metaphysics, from a broad array of voices. It will interest all philosophers and social scientists concerned with mind, action, or the foundations of social theory.

Author Biography

Frederick F. Schmitt is professor of philosophy at Indiana University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Socializing Metaphysics: An Introduction	p. 1
The Structure of the Social Atom: Joint Commitment as the Foundation of Human Social Behavior	p. 39
Practical Intersubjectivity	p. 65
The We-Mode and the I-Mode	p. 93
Joint Action: From Individualism to Supraindividualism	p. 129
Groups with Minds of Their Own	p. 167
Social Ontology and Political Power	p. 195
Conventions and Forms of Life	p. 211
Denotation and Discovery	p. 247
Individual Autonomy and Sociality	p. 269
Social Construction: The "Debunking" Project	p. 301
Social Construction, Social Roles, and Stability	p. 327
Socializing Metaphysics: A Bibliography	p. 355
Index	p. 383
Contributors	p. 387
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