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Socializing Metaphysics
The Nature of Social Reality
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2004
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Human life is conducted within a network of social relations, social groups, and societies. Grasping the implications of that fact starts with understanding social metaphysics. Social metaphysics provides a foundation for social theory, as well as for social epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, action theory, ethics, and political philosophy. This volume will interest anyone concerned with mind, action, or the foundations of social theory. Socializing Metaphysics supplies diverse answers, from a broad array of voices, to the basic questions of social metaphysics. What is it for human beings to stand in social relations or form social groups? Do these relations and groups bring about something above and beyond the individuals involved? Is there any sense to the notion of a human being apart from social relations? How can an individual achieve autonomy within a society? In what sense are human kinds like race and gender socially constructed? The answers are found within.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-1429-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-585-46665-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
389
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1. Socializing Metaphysics: An Introduction No access Pages 1 - 38
Chapter 2. The Structure of the Social Atom: Joint Commitment as the Foundation of Human Social Behavior No access Pages 39 - 64
Chapter 3. Practical Intersubjectivity No access Pages 65 - 92
Chapter 4. The We-Mode and the I-Mode No access Pages 93 - 128
Chapter 5. Joint Action: From Individualism to Supraindividualism No access Pages 129 - 166
Chapter 6. Groups with Minds of Their Own No access Pages 167 - 194
Chapter 7. Social Ontology and Political Power No access Pages 195 - 210
Chapter 8. Conventions and Forms of Life No access Pages 211 - 246
Chapter 9. Denotation and Discovery No access Pages 247 - 268
Chapter 10. Individual Autonomy and Sociality No access Pages 269 - 300
Chapter 11. Social Construction: The "Debunking" Project No access Pages 301 - 326
Chapter 12. Social Construction, Social Roles, and Stability No access Pages 327 - 354
Socializing Metaphysics: A Bibliography No access Pages 355 - 382
