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Ant Trap

Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
308 Seiten
Englisch
Oxford University Presserschienen am27.09.2018
In The Ant Trap, Brian Epstein rewrites our understanding of the nature of the social world and the foundations of the social sciences. He develops a new model of the social world, and shows that the actions and intentions of social groups often depend on more than their members.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextIn The Ant Trap, Brian Epstein rewrites our understanding of the nature of the social world and the foundations of the social sciences. He develops a new model of the social world, and shows that the actions and intentions of social groups often depend on more than their members.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-087175-8
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum27.09.2018
Seiten308 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 18 mm
Gewicht527 g
Artikel-Nr.48201787

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
INTRODUCTION

PART ONE - FOUNDATIONS, OLD AND NEW

1 Individualism: a recipe for warding off "spirits"

2 Getting to the consensus view

3 Seeds of doubt

4 Another puzzle: a competing consensus

5 Tools and terminology

6 Grounding and anchoring

7 Case study: laws as frame principles

8 Two kinds of individualism

9 Against conjunctivism

PART TWO - GROUPS AND THE FAILURE OF INDIVIDUALISM

10 Groups and constitution

11 Simple facts about groups

12 The identity of groups

13 Kinds of groups

14 Group attitudes: patterns of grounding

15 Group action: more than member action

16 Group intention

17 Other theories I: social integrate models

18 Other theories II: status models

LOOKING AHEAD

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Indexmehr

Autor

Brian Epstein received his PhD in philosophy from Stanford University, his master's in philosophy from Oxford University, and graduated summa cum laude with an AB in philosophy from Princeton University. His research interests include philosophy of social science, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, focusing in particular on issues in the theory of reference and the ontology of social kinds. He also has interests in conceptual schemes, the philosophy of music, and the philosophy of economics. Between degree programs, he worked at a number of technology startups and consulting firms.