Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition

Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition brings together contributions discussing issues arising from theoretical and empirical research on social ontology and social cognition. It is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary collection in this rapidly expanding area. The contributors dr...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gallotti, Mattia (Editor), Michael, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Series:Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Objects in Minds; Mattia Gallotti and John Michael
  • Part I. Perspectives on Social Ontology
  • Are There Social Objects?; John Searle
  • Deflating Socially Constructed Objects. What Thoughts do to the World; Ruth Garrett Millikan
  • How Many Kinds of Glue Hold the Social World Together?; Brian Epstein
  • On the Nature of Social Kinds; Francesco Guala
  • Normativity of the Background. A Contextualist Account of Social Facts; Enrico Terrone and Daniela Tagliafico
  • Social Ontology and the Objection from Reification; Edouard Machery
  • Part II. Perspectives on Social Cognition
  • Constraints on Joint Action; Cédric Paternotte
  • How Objects Become Social in the Brain: Five Questions for a Neuroscience of Social Reality; Cristina Becchio and Cesare Bertone
  • Materializing Mind: The Role of Objects in Cognition and Culture; Kristian Tylén John McGraw
  • Perceiving Affordances and Social Cognition; Anika Fiebich
  • Social Cognition as Causal Inference: Implications for Common Knowledge and Autism; Jakob Hohwy and Colin Palmer