An Ontology for Social Reality

An Ontology for Social Reality by Tiziana Andina.

This book explores the complex domain of social reality, asking what this reality is, how it is composed and what its dynamics are in both theoretical and practical terms. Through the examination of some of the most important contemporary theories of social ontology, the book discusses the fundament...

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Main Author: Andina, Tiziana (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER I: THE DOMAIN OF SOCIAL ONTOLOGY
  • 1. Conflicting Intuitions: Antigone’s Paradox
  • 2. Ontology
  • 3. Social Ontology
  • 3.1. The Stipulative Model and the Essentialist Model
  • 3.2. The Origins of the Essentialist Model
  • 3.3. Contra Hume: Reinach’s Essentialism
  • 3.3.1. The A Priori Foundations of Social Ontology
  • 3.3.2. Arguments For and Against the Essentialist Model
  • 3.3.2.1. The "Tragedy of the Commons" and the Irreducibility of Power
  • 3.4. The Primitives of Social Reality: Action, Covenants, Emotions
  • CHAPTER II: THEORIES
  • 1. ‘P-ontologies’: People, Groups, Relations
  • 1.1. Common Commitment and Plural Action
  • 2. ‘I-ontologies’: Facts, Institutions, Procedures
  • 2.1. The Relational Character of Social Ontology
  • 2.2. The Foundations: Assignment of Function, Collective Intentionality, Constitutive Rules
  • 2.2.1. Assignment of Function
  • 2.2.2. Intentionality
  • 2.2.3. Individual Intentionality
  • 2.2.4. Intentionality
  • 2.2.5. Constitutive and Regulative Rules
  • 2.2.6. Institutional Facts
  • 2.3. Rules and the Normative Issue
  • 3. Le ‘O-ontologies’ and the Role of Documents
  • 3.1. The (Social) World In Eleven Theses
  • 3.2. The Ontology Of Social Objects
  • 3.3. From the Letter to the Document: the Case of the European Community
  • 3.3.1. Phenomenology of Documents
  • 3.3.2. Governmentality: the Poietic Power Of Documents
  • CHAPTER III: STATE AND JUSTICE
  • 1. That Thing Called State
  • 2. Transgenerational Actions
  • 2.1. Epistemology
  • 2.2. Ontology
  • 2.3. Three Theories of The State: A Comparison
  • 2.3.1. Utopia
  • 2.3.2. Leviathan
  • 2.3.3. Minimal State
  • 2.4. The Prejudice Against the State: Anarchist Theories
  • 2.5. Social Contract 2.0
  • CHAPTER IV: A CROSS-SECTION OF POWER
  • 1. States and Meta-States
  • 2. Jonas’ Half-World
  • 2.1. Energy
  • 2.2. Power
  • 3. The Macrostructure Of Institutional Reality
  • 3.1. Document Bureaucracy
  • 3.1.1. Actions
  • 3.1.2. Memory
  • 3.2. Identity
  • 3.2.1 The Memory of Art.

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