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Title Institutions, emotions, and group agents : contributions to social ontology / Anita Konzelmann Ziv, Hans Bernhard Schmid, editors ; with the editorial assistance of Katharina Bernhard and Ulla Schmid
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 372 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality ; volume 2
Studies in the philosophy of sociality ; v. 2.
Contents Introduction: Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents--Contributions to Social Ontology / Anita Konzelmann Ziv and Hans Bernhard Schmid -- Part I. Intentionality and Institutions -- Document Acts / Barry Smith -- Searlean Reflections on Sacred Mountains / Filip Buekens -- Social Objects without Intentions / Brian Epstein -- The Logical Form of Totalitarianism / Jennifer Hudin -- Groups, Normativity and Disagreement / Rodrigo E. Sánchez Brigido -- Joint Actions, Social Institutions and Collective Goods: A Teleological Account / Seumas Miller -- Three Types of Heterotropic Intentionality. A Taxonomy in Social Ontology / Francesca De Vecchi -- Part II. Shared Emotions and Recognition -- Emergence and Empathy / Ronald de Sousa -- The Functions of Collective Emotions in Social Groups / Mikko Salmela -- Feelings of Being-Together and Caring-With / H. Andrés Sánchez Guerrero -- Joining the Background: Habitual Sentiments Behind We-Intentionality / Emanuele Caminada -- Collective Intentionality and Recognition from Others / Arto Laitinen -- The Conditions of Collectivity: Joint Commitment and the Shared Norms of Membership / Titus Stahl -- Part III. Collective Reasons and Group Agency -- Acting over Time, Acting Together / Michael E. Bratman -- How Where We Stand Constrains Where I Stand: Applying Bratman's Account of Self-Governance to Collective Action / Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko -- Team Reasoning and Shared Intention / Abraham Sesshu Roth -- Collective Intentionality and Practical Reason / Juliette Gloor -- The SANE Approach to Real Collective Responsibility / Sara Rachel Chant -- Are Individualist Accounts of Collective Responsibility Morally Deficient? / András Szigeti -- Can Groups Be Autonomous Rational Agents? A Challenge to the List-Pettit Theory / Vuko Andric -- Direct and Indirect Common Belief / Emiliano Lorini and Andreas Herzig
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2013)
Subject Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Ontology.
ontology (metaphysics)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Ontology
Social sciences -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Konzelmann Ziv, Anita, editor
Schmid, Hans Bernhard, editor
ISBN 9789400769342
9400769342
9400769334
9789400769335