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  • The Social Institution of Discursive Norms

    Historical, Naturalistic, and Pragmatic Perspectives

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms—the norms governing our thought and talk—are profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure our social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social and institutional structures.The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. The first offers historical perspectives on discursive norms, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Fanaticism

    Epistemic, Affective, and Political Dimensions

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    The essays in this volume explore some of the disconcerting realities of fanaticism, by analyzing its unique dynamics, and considering how it can be productively confronted. The book features both analytic and continental philosophical approaches to fanaticism.Working at the intersections of epistemology, philosophy of emotions, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion, the contributors ... Read more

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  • We, Together

    The Social Ontology of Us

    Who are we and what do we do as agents living together? In We, Together, Hans Bernhard Schmid argues, first, that our living together is a joint activity. Joint activities involve shared intentions, and shared intentions have plural intentional subjects. We are, thus, the plural subjects of our shared intentions in the same way as we are the singular subjects of our individual intentions: through ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • The Background of Social Reality

    Selected Contributions from the Inaugural Meeting of ENSO

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume aims at giving the reader an overview over the most recent theoretical and methodological findings in a new and rapidly evolving area of current theory of society: social ontology. This book brings together philosophical, sociological and psychological approaches and advances the theory towards a solution of contemporary problems of society, such as the integration of cultures, the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Evil in Joint Action

    The Ethics of Hate and the Sociology of Original Sin

    Joining insights from social science and philosophy, this book offers a nuanced view on the discourse of evil, which has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Exploring the famous ‘Pear Theft’ episode in St Augustine’s Confessions, it looks beyond the theological implications of the event to focus instead on the secular insights that it offers when the event is placed in the context of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents

    Contributions to Social Ontology

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Groups, Norms and Practices

    Essays on Inferentialism and Collective Intentionality

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This edited volume examines the relationship between collective intentionality and inferential theories of meaning. The book consists of three main sections. The first part contains essays demonstrating how researchers working on inferentialism and collective intentionality can learn from one another. The essays in the second part examine the dimensions along which philosophical and empirical ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Self-Evaluation

    Affective and Social Grounds of Intentionality

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The book contains contributions by leading figures in philosophy of mind and action, emotion theory, and phenomenology. As the focus of the volume is truly innovative we expect the book to sell well to both philosophers and scholars from neighboring fields such as social and cognitive science. The predominant view in analytic philosophy is that an ability for self-evaluation is constitutive for ... Read more

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  • From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity

    Heidegger’s Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger. It connects the philosopher's conceptions of the anyone, everydayness, and authenticity with an analysis and critique of social normativity. Heidegger’s account of the anyone is ambiguous. Some see it as a good description of human sociality, others think of it as an important critique of ... Read more

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  • The Phenomenological Approach to Social Reality

    History, Concepts, Problems

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume features fourteen essays that examine the works of key figures within the phenomenological movement in a clear and accessible way. It presents the fertile, groundbreaking, and unique aspects of phenomenological theorizing against the background of contemporary debate about social ontology and collective intentionality.The expert contributors explore the insights of such thinkers as ... Read more

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    From Souls to Systems

    Series series Ideas Explained
    What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Integrating various schools of thought including sociology, philosophy and biology Luhmann Explained results in an overall analysis of "world society ... Read more

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  • Reflexive Methodology

    New Vistas for Qualitative Research

    Praise for the Second Edition:"In opposition to most literature on how to conduct good social science research which is either empirically oriented or gives priority to theoretical and philosophical considerations, which tends to make empirical research look odd or irrelevant, this volume on ′Reflexive Methodology′ explicitly turns towards a consideration of the perceptual, cognitive, theoretical, ... Read more

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