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Stephanie Collins, Brian Epstein, Sally Haslanger, Hans Bernhard Schmid - The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, Inbunden

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The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology

Av Stephanie Collins, Brian Epstein, Sally Haslanger, Hans Bernhard Schmid

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Social ontology is the study of the nature and properties of the social world. It is concerned with analyzing various entities that arise from social interaction. These include groups, money, corporations, institutions, property, social classes, races, genders, artifacts, artworks, language, and law. What are the building blocks of things like these? How are they constructed or set up? Are social categories and kinds produced by our attitudes? By our language? Our practices? Are they produced by causal patterns? And is there just one way social categories are set up, or are there many varieties of social construction? These are all questions about social ontology. Social ontology is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research. Across fields of philosophy-in metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and so on-theorists are embarking on projects in social ontology and looking for frameworks to address questions about social construction and the nature of social entities. Social ontology also directly engages the social sciences, with important social ontological work being done by sociologists, legal theorists, economists, business theorists, cognitive scientists, and others, who address foundational and methodological questions. The purpose of the Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology is to provide readers with a survey of topics in this large and interdisciplinary field, with authoritative overviews of key historical approaches to the nature of the social world, theories of the building blocks of the social world, theories of how the social world is constructed, and theories of important social domains that social ontologists are working on.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-25
  • Mått: 181 x 249 x 45 mm
  • Vikt: 1 365 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Oxford Handbooks
  • Antal sidor: 768
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780197565094
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Stephanie Collins is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. Her work focuses on collective agency, collective responsibility, and other topics in social ontology, political philosophy, and normative ethics. Her books are Organizations as Wrongdoers: from Ontology to Morality (Oxford University Press, 2023), Group Duties: Their Existence and Their Implications for Individuals (Oxford University Press, 2019), and The Core of Care Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Brian Epstein is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts, specializing in social ontology, philosophy of social science, and social cognition. He is the author of The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences (Oxford University Press, 2015), winner of the Lakatos Award and the Gittler Award, Social Ontology (Cambridge University Press, 2025), and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Social Ontology. Epstein has published many articles on individualism, metaphysics,social groups, group cognition, and the relation between social ontology and social theory. He received his PhD from Stanford, MA from Oxford, and AB from Princeton. Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at MIT. She also teaches in D-Lab, a hands-on program using participatory design to create inclusive, accessible, and sustainable solutions to global poverty challenges. Broadly speaking, her work links issues of social justice concerning gender, race, class (and other social categories) with contemporary work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. See: Hans Bernhard Schmid is the professor of Political and Social Philosophy of the University of Vienna, Austria. Besides Social Ontology, his areas of specialization include Phenomenology, Existentialism, and the Philosophy ofthe Social Sciences. Previous positions include a SNF Research Professorship at the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he had obtained his doctoral and habilitation degrees.

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