The importance of us : a philosophical study of basic social notions
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The importance of us : a philosophical study of basic social notions
（Stanford series in philosophy）
Stanford University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [460]-465) and index
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Description
This book develops a systematic philosophical theory of social action and group phenomena, in the process presenting detailed analyses of such central social notions as 'we-attitude' (especially 'we-intention' and mutual belief, social norm, joint action, and - most important - group goal, group belief, and group action). Though this is a philosophical work, it presents a unified conceptual framework that may be useful to social scientists, especially social psychologists, as well as philosophers. The book puts forward and defends a number of systematic philosophical theses, resulting in not only a theory of social action but, more broadly, a philosophical theory of society, or at least those aspects of society with which social psychology is supposed to deal (individuals in groups, groups, joint action, and the like).
Table of Contents
1. Norms, tasks, and we-attitudes. 2. Intentional joint action. 3. We-intentions and their cognates. 4. Social groups: a conative approach. 5. Group actions. 6. Joint goals and group goals. 7. Group beliefs. 8. Social roles. 9. The existence of social entities. 10. Towards a general dynamic theory of society.
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